Video: Birds scrubbed clean after Santa Barbara oil spill

Wildcare providers at the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care and Education Center work to clean an oil covered pelican on Friday, May 22, 2015, after the bird was rescued from the oil spill off Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County, Calif. Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times / TNS

Birds covered with oil after a spill off the Santa Barbara County coast are cleaned up and nursed back to health. Sea lions were also injured and taken to Sea World in San Diego.

This story was originally published May 23, 2015 at 10:32 AM with the headline "Video: Birds scrubbed clean after Santa Barbara oil spill."

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