Animals Covered in Oil: Gulf Oil Spill Pictures

A brown pelican coated in heavy oil tries to take flight June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is coming ashore in large volumes across southern Louisiana coastal areas. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

A dead hermit crabs lies in the water on a public beach on June 2, 2010 in Dauphin Island, Alabama. Oil related to the Deepwater Horizon accident began to appear in early June on the shores of Alabama. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

United States Fish and Wildlife biologist Kayla Dibenedetto attempts to catch an oiled brown pelican at Grand Isle, Louisiana, Saturday, June 5, 2010. The pair chased the bird for more than two hours before giving up because of darkness and expected to try again in the morning. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A Portuguese man-o-war is seen in clumps of oil in the waters in Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana, Monday, May 3, 2010. Fish and wildlife are vulnerable to the oil spill resulting from the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A dying catfish that has been picked at by birds floats on the surface of the water in the Breton Sound of the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana Monday, May 3, 2010. Fish and wildlife are vulnerable to the oil spill resulting the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Hermit crabs struggle to cross a patch of oil from the the Deepwater Horizon spill on a barrier island near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana, Sunday, June 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A dead turtle floats on a pool of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana, Monday, June, 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

A dolphin lies on dead on a beach on Horn Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, Tuesday, May 11, 2010. Officials say that at least six dead dolphins have been found on the Gulf Coast since May 2. Authorities don't know whether the animals died from the Oil in the Gulf. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

A great blue heron stands on oil containment booms that are being used to protect the beach area from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on June 7, 2010 in Pensacola, Florida. While the containment boom was not successful, BP stopped the leak on July 15, 2010 using a 75-ton containment cap. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

A laughing gull coated in heavy oil wallows in the surf June 4, 2010 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident is coming ashore in large volumes across southern Louisiana coastal areas. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)