By AP
AUGUSTA, MI –
The first group of Canada geese and mallard ducks rescued after an oil spill in southern Michigan's Kalamazoo River are headed to a new home.
State and federal wildlife officials say 19 birds rehabilitated after the oil spill were to be released Wednesday into the W.K. Kellogg Bird Sanctuary in Augusta.
The birds were covered with oil from a spill that was reported July 26 from an Enbridge Inc. pipeline near Marshall. A wildlife rehabilitation center in Marshall has received more than 170 birds, turtles and other animals.
Some turtles and other animals already had been released.
The leak estimated at 820,000 to more than 1 million gallons of oil came from a pipeline that runs from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario.