Birds are some of the most sensitive creatures to sea pollution. Oil from an oil spill is readily absorbed into birds’ feathers. It is the feathers that trap heat to keep a bird’s body cools rapidly, and the bird dies from cold.
Birds are also poisoned by the oil when they try to clean the sticky oil from their feathers with their beaks. Oil spills also destroy the bird’s natural sources of food so that it starves to death.
