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Aerial view of the oil booms deployed around Queen Bess Island in an attempt to protect it from the Deepwater Horizon spill. They proved largely ineffective in keeping this important bird rookery safe from oil.
Keywords
- Aerial
- bess
- bird
- Boom
- gulf
- Gulf of Mexico
- gulf oil spill
- Habitat
- high angle view
- horizontal
- Island
- Mexico
- Ocean
- Oil
- oil boom
- oil spill
- Queen
- queen bess
- queen bess island
- rook
- Rookery
- Sea
- spill
- surround
- surrounding
- Water
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