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And back home it is. This brown pelican was covered in oil during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010, rescued and cleaned then flown to and released in Georgia. It was spotted in March on a rock jetty on Queen Bess Island in Barataria Bay by a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologist. The pelican was tagged “Red 33Z” when captured on June 14, 2010, at the Empire Jetties in Barataria Bay in the wake of the giant oil spill. It was taken to a triage facility and then to a rehabilitation facility in Louisiana. After that, it was taken via plane to a U.S. Coast Guard stati...

BP spill rescue pelican returns from Georgia to Louisiana April 8, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3This March 2021 photo provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries shows a brown pelican with a red band marked “33Z” on Louisiana's Queen Bess Island. The pelican, rescued from the 2010 oil spill, cleaned of oil and released in Georgia, has returned 700 miles (1,126 kilometers) to the island restored for pelicans and other seabirds. (Casey Wright/LDWF via AP)Casey Wright/APShow MoreShow Less 2of3FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2020, file photo, pelicans fly over and sit...

April 08, 2021 - 10:42 AM QUEEN BESS ISLAND, La. - A pelican rescued from the 2010 oil spill, cleaned of oil and released in Georgia has returned 700 miles (1,126 kilometres) to an island restored last year for pelicans and other seabirds. It was among 5,000 oil-covered birds collected in and off Louisiana during the spill, and among 582 pelicans that were rehabilitated, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said in a news release Thursday. Biologists don’t know just when it returned to Queen Bess Island. But a photo taken in March by a department biologist c...

Brown Pelican rescued during 2010 oil spill finds way home from Georgia 11 years later Share Updated: 9:45 AM CDT Apr 8, 2021 WDSU Digital Team TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 9:45 AM CDT Apr 8, 2021 WDSU Digital Team A Brown Pelican that was rescued from Louisiana during the 2010 BP oil spill made its way home 11 years later. The distance is about 700 miles as the crow flies. But a brown pelican transported from Louisiana to Georgia in 2010 was bound and determined to cover that ground and return to the Bayou State, according to t...

BP oil spill rescue pelican returns from Georgia to Louisiana Other birds released in Georgia, Texas and Florida also have been spotted back in Louisiana.     This March 2021 photo provided by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries shows a brown pelican with a red band marked “33Z” on Louisiana's Queen Bess Island. The pelican, rescued from the 2010 oil spill, cleaned of oil and released in Georgia, has returned 700 miles to the island restored for pelicans and other seabirds. [ CASEY WRIGHT | AP ] Updated Apr. 8 QUEEN BESS ISLAND, La. — A pelican rescued fr...