Researchers study oil-spill effects on marsh birds
by Rick Bogren
LSU AgCenter researchers are studying a bird species that lives only in coastal marshes to try to determine how it may be affected the by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
Sabrina Taylor and Philip Stouffer in the LSU AgCenter School of Renewable Resources are collecting and analyzing feathers and tissue from seaside sparrows to see how they are surviving the presence of spilled oil.





































