Drew Wirwa, Assistant Manager, Breton, Delta & Bayou Sauvage NWRs phones for another observer to hop aboard the boat heading to Breton NWR to determine the status of booms placed there to help deflect oil away from 1,300 nesting brown pelicans....
Drew Wirwa, USFWS employee makes his way across a lagoon to inspect the status of 1,300 nesting brown pelicans at North Island, Breton National Wildlife Refuge, along with volunteer Kelby Ouchly (L), and Jack Bohannan, Refuge Manager for Breton,...
Jack Bohannan points to a lagoon to inspect the status of 1,300 nesting brown pelicans at North Island, Breton National Wildlife Refuge, along with volunteer Kelby Ouchly (middle), and USFWS Assistant Manager Drew Wirwa.
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.
