A grave black tide oozed deeper into Louisiana's flimsy coastal wetlands leaving an influx of oil-blackened birds and animals behind. They were today, rescued by Wildlife rescue crews, with a warning that the number of affected wildlife will increase with time.

"No one should believe that because we haven't recovered thousands of oiled wildlife that the impact will not be widespread”, said Ralph Morgenweck, a senior Science Advisor to the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Out of the liberated were, 39 oiled birds recovered alive and 85 of them found dead. Just when oil started gushing out of the wreckage of a BP-leased rig, 52 miles offshore, there were 19 dolphins and 193 sea turtles found on coastal beaches. No cause could be detected of these deaths.

The nastiest environmental catastrophe ever in US history-the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1989 is threatened to eclipse due to this gushing Gulf spill. This may mark a gloomy standard for the destruction of fish and wildlife.

Now, it has alarmed and cautioned a hundred of Fish & Wildlife recruits and citizen volunteers to stream out of their shelters and look for oiled birds and animals across the Gulf coast, to rescue.