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Photo: A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

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A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

Workers washing an oiled brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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Workers washing an oiled brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

Photo: A sea turtle that was rescued from the deep water horizon oil spill are being rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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A sea turtle that was rescued from the deep water horizon oil spill are being rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Photo: A sea turtle that was rescued from the deep water horizon oil spill are being rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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A sea turtle that was rescued from the deep water horizon oil spill are being rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Photo: Sea turtles that were rescued from the deep water horizon oil spill being rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Sea turtles that were rescued from the deep water horizon oil spill being rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) waits in a holding pen at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where most of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) waits in a holding pen at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where most of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

A man holds a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

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A man holds a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) covered with oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, on Queen Bess Island, Louisiana.

Photo: A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. This fish was found on the top of a thick oil slick.

Photo: A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana.

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A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. This fish was found on the top of a thick oil slick.

A scientist holds a Mount Lyell salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus) in the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A scientist holds a Mount Lyell salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus) in the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

Photo: A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

Photo: A biologist working for the National Parks Service collects introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A biologist working for the National Parks Service collects introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

A scientist holds a Mount Lyell salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus) in the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A scientist holds a Mount Lyell salamander (Hydromantes platycephalus) in the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

Photo: A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King's Canyon National Park, Nevada.

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A biologist working for the National Parks Service holds an introduced (non-native) trout at the Sixty Lake Basin of King’s Canyon National Park, Nevada.

After being examined for chytrid fungus, a male harlequin frog (Atelopus sp.) is shown to members of the press at a research site near Limon, Ecuador.

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After being examined for chytrid fungus, a male harlequin frog (Atelopus sp.) is shown to members of the press at a research site near Limon, Ecuador.

A harlequin frog (Atelopus sp.) is swabbed for study at a research site near Limon, Ecuador.

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A harlequin frog (Atelopus sp.) is swabbed for study at a research site near Limon, Ecuador.

Photo: A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

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A woman holds a giant earthworm in the cloud forest reserve of Reserva Las Gralarias, near Mindo, Ecuador.

Photo: A sister and brother ride together on an ATV at their farmhouse in Dunbar, Nebraska.

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A sister and brother ride together on an ATV at their farmhouse in Dunbar, Nebraska.

Photo: A young boy poses for a photograph while on vacation in Crosslake, Minnesota.

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A young boy poses for a photograph while on vacation in Crosslake, Minnesota.

Photo: A person holding morel mushrooms (Morchella esculenta) that were found along the Steamboat Trace trail between Peru and Nebraska City, Nebraska.

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A person holding morel mushrooms (Morchella esculenta) that were found along the Steamboat Trace trail between Peru and Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Photo: An expedition guide holds fruit that been chewed by mammals on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

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An expedition guide holds fruit that been chewed by mammals on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea.

Photo: A mother comforts her son while sitting at the dinner table in their home in Washington, D.C.

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A mother comforts her son while sitting at the dinner table in their home in Washington, D.C.

Photo: A woman and her son hold a pumpkin at Roca Berry Farm's pumpkin patch in Roca, NE.

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A woman and her son hold a pumpkin at Roca Berry Farm’s pumpkin patch in Roca, NE.

Photo: A father plays with his daughter at their home in Washington D.C.

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A father plays with his daughter at their home in Washington D.C.

Photo: An adolescent girl holds a pumpkin at Roca Berry farm in Roca, NE.

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An adolescent girl holds a pumpkin at Roca Berry farm in Roca, NE.

Photo: An adolescent girl holds a pumpkin at Roca Berry farm in Roca, NE.

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An adolescent girl holds a pumpkin at Roca Berry farm in Roca, NE.

Photo: An adolescent girl holds a pumpkin at Roca Berry farm in Roca, NE.

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An adolescent girl holds a pumpkin at Roca Berry farm in Roca, NE.

Photo: A young girl holds a bright pink gum ball in her hand.

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A young girl holds a bright pink gum ball in her hand.

Photo: A man cradles a ground-dwelling chick in his hands in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

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A man cradles a ground-dwelling chick in his hands in the Atacama Desert in Chile.

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