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From: richman@reepicheep.sws.uiuc.edu (Mike Richman)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Bird War Victims
Summary: One local population could become extinct
Keywords: gulf war
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.224254.26371@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 Jan 91 22:42:54 GMT
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In article <1991Jan29.181726.19259@granite.cr.bull.com> horvath@granite.cr.bull.com (John Horvath) writes:
>One of the pictures in yesterday's paper showed a different bird. The
>caption called it a cormorant, but it seemed to be some sort of
>merganser. It had a short neck with a round head, fanning out into
>something of a crest. In the AP or UPI picture in our paper, there
>were 2 birds sitting on the beach together, covered in oil.


CNN ran a decent story this afternoon outlining several types of birds
threatened.  The worst problem may be for manatees though.  They
speculated that the entire Persian Gulf population was likely to perish.
Combined with the dismal state of Florida manatees, this is a serious 
problem.

Mike Richman