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Three birds from Perdido Key, caught in the BP oil spill, washed, and rehabilitated were released into clean water 2-hundred miles from their home at Lake Talquin.

Governor Charlie Crist helped release the animals. The state has set up a hotline and is promising to respond to sightings of oiled animals within an hour of receiving a phone call. Crist says the effort to save the birds is massive and extremely important to Florida’s future.

“It’s awfully important I think that all of us realize how important wildlife is to Florida. I know Floridians care deeply about it. I’m a fisherman myself, and I care a lot about what we do with our wildlife and how we protect it and preserve it,” said Crist.

It takes more than a week to rehabilitate a bird covered in oil. Only half survive the cleaning, and experts say only 10 percent of those live a full year. People cleaning the animals say those are old statistics and advances in science have increased that rate of survival.