The San Francisco Examiner Knows its Birds

The tragic disappearance of thousands of Bay Area birds in the wake of the Cosco Busan oil spill was rendered even that more palpable today by the San Francisco Examiner, who identified the avian survivors by name.

The above screen capture from the Ex displays a couple of our luckier local feathered friends (hat tip to the reader who can tell us what kind of birds those are; there's a hint here on the page) -- yet the caption identifies them as "Maria Zellerbach, left, and Lee Munson."

Maria and Lee were saddened by the oil-related demises of their cherished friends Daniel Coates, Gertrude Weberlofsky, and Joe and Helen Pearl.

Meanwhile, a longer, better story -- with nicer, though less endearingly captioned photos -- ran earlier this week over at SF Citizen.