More Than a Thousand
Birds Covered in Oil after Spill off Denmark's East Coast
October 31, 2005 — By Associated Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A Danish coast
guard helicopter searched Sunday for an oil slick that covered more than
a thousand birds in the Kattegatt Sea between Denmark and Sweden.
The birds were still alive when they were found late Saturday on the
shores of the island of Anholt in the middle of the Kattegatt Sea but
crews from the Danish Forest and Nature Agency destroyed some 100 of the
worst affected birds, most of them ducks, a spokesman for the agency
said Sunday.
"Most of them are ducks that normally are found in open waters and very
seldom get close to the coasts," game consultant Steen Bonne Rasmussen
said.
Rasmussen said he feared more birds willl be coated by the oil. He said
he did not know where the oil came from or what type of oil it is.
Source: Associated Press |