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The enduring image of nearly every oil spill is a dead or dying bird lying on a blackened beach, its feathers covered with oil. We don’t want to see any more of that in California.

Audubon California needs you to make a clear statement to your elected officials that you do not support new oil drilling off our coasts that would endanger millions of shorebirds and their irreplaceable habitat.

Earlier this month, President Bush removed an executive order banning oil drilling off America’s coastlines, and has been applying increasing pressure on Congress to lift its 27-year ban so that drilling can commence. Oil companies and their friends in government are clearly hoping to take advantage of the pain that many Americans are feeling at the pump to exploit our most precious coastlines.

We need you to help our elected leaders see through the double-talk on this issue. Attempts to lift the offshore drilling moratorium could be attached to several different bills and come up for a vote at any time. Make your voice heard now.

Above photo taken of a sea bird found on the beach near Santa Barbara shortly after the 1969 oil spill. Photo by Dick Smith/UCSB.