The oil-crusted seabird was swaddled in a sweatshirt inside a gym bag, carried by a woman looking for help at the International Bird Rescue center in San Pedro. Nearly 100 Murres, a diving bird that spends most of its life at sea, have been brought to the International Bird Rescue center in San Pedro to have oil removed from their feathers. The oil came from natural seeps in the Santa Barbara Channel and gets stirred-up by winter weather and currents. See
Daily Breeze article.
