A researcher of the bird was found his return to a major nesting colony South of Saint-Jean fous of gannets are doing well despite concerns that a massive oil spill that began in the Gulf of the Mexico, a year ago dramatically in population in the region.
Crazy Gannet six colonies in Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec migrate to winter in the Gulf each year.
Bill Montevecchi, a researcher from Memorial University, which was followed by voyage of birds for the Gulf of the Mexico, to return, said Tuesday of the hundreds of gannets were probably killed by oil spilled after the explosion of a drilling platform on 20 avril2010.
A year later to the colony in the Bay of St. Mary, Montevecchi said that he believed that some of the thousands of birds that return to the province to lay a single egg each year have been damaged by the spill of the signs.
He said: "We believe that we have seen a few birds which had a few spots of oil on them on there.".
Despite some signs of oil, Montevecchi said he is optimistic for the future of the colony, but he would keep an eye on what happens in the future.
It is still not clear what impact returning to the Gulf of the Mexico, year after year will have on these birds.
"I feel really good." I have a real problem for what happened, and we should reduce these occurrences, "stated Montevecchi." "It could have effects population."
Scientists who have studied the spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska suggest that the worst might be over.
Wildlife ecologist Dan Esler, with the Centre for ecology of fauna in Delta, British Columbia Colombia, found this residual persistent oil from spills continues to appear in Harlequin ducks.
"These affects has had a trickle-down effect sort of demographic before ten years after this.". "If a decade after the oil has been spilled, we had not seen a full recovery", he said.
Esler, said it could take years or even decades to know the real environmental toll on the Gulf spill.
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