oil say, a super tanker did 99% more damage to birds than the Gulf Disaster...

Margret Wente in the Globe and Mail writes and then quotes she says "But just three months later [after the BP disaster], the picture was looking much brighter. “The impacts have been much, much less than everyone feared,” ,geochemist Jacqueline Michel who was co-ordinating shoreline assessments for the government, told Time magazine. Strong coastal currents kept the oil away from the shore, and the damage to the wetlands was minimal. Fish and shrimp in the region have tested healthy, and the destruction of bird life was about 1 per cent of the toll inflicted by the Exxon Valdez. “There are a lot of alarmists in the bird world,” said Paul Kemp, vice-president of the National Audubon Society. “But this has been a disaster for people, not biota.”