VIDEO: Gaillard Island's baby-bird boom a good sign for biologists (Photo gallery)

07/08/11 Nesting season is in full swing on Mobile Bay's Gaillard Island, with young pelicans at every stage of development, from eggs in the nest to fledgings attempting their first flights.

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Baby bird boom for pelicans and terns on Mobile Bay's Gaillard Island (photo gallery)

07/04/11 There's a bumper crop of baby pelicans and terns hatching out on Gaillard Island in Mobile Bay, and, in the wake of the BP oil spill, biologists in Alabama are breathing something akin to a sigh of relief.

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Oyster gardening kicks off in Mobile Bay (photo gallery)

07/09/11 In the Mobile Bay oyster gardening program, residents from Mobile and Baldwin counties get small, juvenile oysters from the Auburn University Shellfish Lab and grow them in baskets that hang from their piers.

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