![]() On March 28, Crime Boss: Rockay City essentially stealth released on the Epic Games store, with the Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 versions to follow shortly this June. After that trailer, we didn’t really hear anything about the game until its recent release. Nobody knew what the game was really about, as the trailer promised celebrities such as Michael Madsen, Kim Basinger, Danny Trejo, and Danny Glover. Says Driscoll, “We fear that they are ingesting oil in the small crabs, shrimp, mollusks, and marine worms they eat as they race up and down our Gulf shores.”įor more on the snowy plover, read last year's spotlight on the species, posted here on The Perch during the spill.During last year’s Game Awards, 505 Games announced Crime Boss: Rockay City. What’s worse, possibly, is if snowy plovers are feeding from soiled beaches. “Back on their traditional nesting grounds on the beaches and barrier islands this year, snowy plovers again face disturbance from cleanup activities where oil is still washing ashore or bubbling up through the sand,” says Melanie Driscoll, Audubon’s Direction of Bird Conservation for the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi Flyway. Had the spill happened there, what then?īut snowy plovers can be troubled not just by pollution, but by our mere presence: by development and general beach use, and now, around the Gulf, by spill mitigation efforts. ![]() Fortunately, about 60 percent of nesting pairs use beaches along a 60-mile stretch of southernmost Texas, which didn’t see any oil. Around the Gulf, the population is larger, but still declining slightly. ![]() Along the Pacific, the Western snowy plover, a subspecies, is threatened under the Endangered Species Act. ![]() ![]() They exist only where there’s suitable habitat: beaches and flats that allow these quick striders, and their mottled eggs, to blend in. Though snowy plovers are found not just in the Americas, but also in the Old World, the U.S. It’s a bird that weighs just two ounces as an adult, while an estimated 170 million gallons of crude gushed from the Deep Horizon well. What could be a greater contrast to last year’s massive, devastating oil spill than a snowy plover, no bigger than a fist, skittering hither and thither along a Gulf Coast beach. ![]()
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