
Workers clean oil off a brown pelican at the International Bird Rescue office in Los Angeles on Friday, May 22. More than 100,000 gallons of oil from a ruptured pipeline recently spilled onto coastal lands near Goleta, California, and into the Pacific Ocean.

Workers prepare an oil containment boom at Refugio State Beach, north of Goleta, on Thursday, May 21.

A pelican flies over an oil slick on the ocean surface near Refugio State Beach on May 21.

A member of the Bureau of Land Management walks past rocks covered in oil on May 21.

A crab and California mussels are covered in oil on May 21.

A bird covered in oil flaps its wings on May 21.

Plastic buckets are filled with oil collected from the beach on May 21.

Workers clean up the site near Refugio State Beach on May 21.

Oil flows toward the ocean on Wednesday, May 20.

Crews clean up oil on May 20.

Ships pulling booms attempt to collect oil from the spill on May 20.

An octopus lies dead on May 20.

Volunteers fill buckets with oil on May 20.

Oil surrounds the feet of local resident Morgan Miller as he patrols the beach for affected wildlife on Tuesday, May 19.

Miller and another local resident, Josh Marsh, look for distressed wildlife on May 19.