What happens to waterfowl in an oil spill?

Board members of the Friends of Ecological Reserve have expressed concern about the risk of Oil spills with projected taker traffic past our BC Ecological reserves :https://ecoreserves.bc.ca/category/issues/oil-spill-threat/ Our major concern has been the many Ecological reserves which have been created to provide habitat and shelter for the millions on Shorebirds that nest in British Columbia. 

Heavy metal and metallothionein concentrations in seabirds from the Pacific coast of Canada

by J E Elliott, A M Scheuhammer Biological Sciences › Miscellaneous Papers Overview Related research Marine Pollution Bulletin (1997) Volume: 34, Issue: 10, Pages: 794-801 ISSN: 0025326X DOI: 10.1016/S0025-326X(97)00034-9 Available from linkinghub.elsevier.com Abstract Seabird tissues, collected during the 1990 breeding season from colonies on the Pacific coast of Canada, were analysed for Cd, Hg, Pb