Word: seabirds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deceive. According to biologists, Exxon's $2.5 billion cleanup effort was by no means as effective as the company has proclaimed. Many killer whales have vanished from Prince William Sound, while the social structure of the remaining groups appears to be breaking down. Several large colonies of murres, a seabird, have not produced any chicks in the years since the spill. Harlequin ducks, black oyster catchers and other animals have been contaminated by eating oil-drenched mussels, and sea-otter populations are hemorrhaging, literally and figuratively -- a side effect of hydrocarbon poisoning...