Prepares to take flight

A brown pelican prepares to take flight after being released at Gulfside City Park in Sanibel Island, Fla., July 12, 2010. Twenty-one brown pelicans and 11 northern gannets, which were all found oiled near the coasts of Louisiana and Alabama, were rehabilitated and then released in Southwest Florida. (DoD photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen, U.S. Coast Guard/Released)