Drew Wirwa, USFWS counts brown pelican nests at Breton National Wildlife Refuge, before the potential impact of incoming oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
There are 1,300 brown pelican nests on Breton Island. Brown pelicans have recently been downlisted from endangered to threatened. Photo taken on May 3, 2010 as the oil spill approaches the Gulf Coast. Boom can be seen in the background.