Thanks to amazing & skilled people who are going out there & collecting the struggling be-gunked birds, and the amazing and skilled people — IBR staff and many many volunteers from IBR & other wildlife centers — who are keeping them warm, feeding them, medicating them, washing them, cleaning up after them (THE HORROR), and putting them back in water when they can handle it again, the birds will go free to swim another day.

I happened to be helping rinse a photogenic bird the day the photographer came.