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List of species at risk from Gulf Oil Spill

Here's a snippet from an article entitled: 600-Plus Species at Risk From Deadly Gulf Oil Spill
"But now the ensuing spill threatens 445 species of fish, 45 species of mammals, 32 species of amphibians and reptiles, and 134 species of birds, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries told AOL News. And when the massive oil slick makes landfall in Louisiana on Friday, it will hit 10 wildlife refuges or management areas, such as the Gulf Islands National Seashore."

Here's an incomplete list of species threatened by the Gulf Oil Spill:
least tern
yellow and black rails
snowy plovers
piping plovers
Wilson’s plover
American oystercatcher
brown pelican
black-crowned night-heron
white ibis
black skimmer
sandwich tern
royal tern
caspian tern
reddish egret
magnificent frigatebird
redhead
lesser scaup
red-cockaded woodpeckers
dunlin
long-billed dowitcher
western sandpiper
gull-billed tern
Atlantic bluefin tuna
Sperm whales
Kemps ridley turtles
Whale sharks
Bottlenose dolphin
Oysters
West Indian manatee
diamondback terrapin
loggerhead turtle
alligator
plankton
crabs
mussels
river otters
gulf shrimp
menhaden

And here's some at risk animals I pulled from a PDF that claims it's source is LA Department of Fish and Wildlife:

green turtle
leatherback sea turtle
common snapping turtle
river cooter
red-eared slider
eastern mud turtle
mud snake
speckled kingsnake
salt marsh snake
diamondback water snake
brown snake
cottonmouth
gulf coast toad
squirrel treefrog
bullfrog
bronze frog
southern leopard frog
lesser siren
Northern river otter
Striped skunk
Mink
Virginia opossum
Least shrew
Nine-banded armadillo
Common muskrat
Nutria
Swamp rabbit
Coyote
Gray fox
Bobcat
Raccoon
White-tailed deer
Rough-toothed dolphin
Atlantic spotted dolphin
Gray’s dolphin
Clymene dolphin
Striped dolphin
Fraser’s dolphin
Risso’s dolphin
Long-beaked dolphin
Blue whale
Fin whale
Sei whale
Pygmy sperm whale
Dwarf sperm whale
Killer whale
Bryde’s whale
Minke whale
Cuvier’s beaked whale
Blacktip shark
Blue marlin
Bull chark
Gray snapper
Red snapper
Sheepshead
Tarpon
Yellowfin tuna
Blue crab
Albacore tuna
Atlantic spadefish
Atlantic stingray
Banded puffer
Batfish
Bignose shark
Black seabass
Blasck snapper
Conger eel
Clown goby
Dwarf seahorse
Gulf flounder
Gulf butterfish
Gulf hake
Gulf killifish
Gulf toadfish
Hammerhead shark
Horse-eye Jack
Ladyfish
Least pubber
Lemon shark
Lined seahorse
Longfin mako shark
Mexican flounder
Morey eel
Night shark
Ocean triggerfish
Ocean sunfish
Offshore seahorse
Rock seabass
Sand tigershark
Scaled sardie
Scorpionfish
Sea catfish
Shrimp eel
Silky shark
Smalltooth sawfish
Shortfin mako shark
Southern stingray
Snowy grouper
Spiny dogfish
Swordfish
Swordtail jawfish
Thresher sharks
Tiger sharks
Wahoo
Wasrsaw grouper
White marlin
Yellow jack
Yellowtail snapper
Arrow squid
Brittle star
Common octopus

The Top Ten Sites at Most Immediate Risk from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

1. Gulf Coast Least Tern Colony
One of the world’s largest colonies of the threatened least tern.

2. Lower Pascagoula River – including the Pascagoula River Coastal Preserve
The coastal marshes at the mouth of the river support yellow and black rails, snowy plovers and endangered wintering piping plovers.

3. Gulf Islands National Seashore
Hosts thousands of wintering shorebirds, including endangered piping plover, Wilson’s plover and American oystercatcher (above) as well as brown pelican, black-crowned night-heron, white ibis and black skimmer.

4. Breton National Wildlife Refuge – including the Chandeleur Islands
Largest tern colony in North America, predominantly of sandwich, royal, and caspian terns. Also American oystercatcher, brown pelican, reddish egret and endangered piping plover. Also an important wintering area for magnificent frigatebird, and stopover site for redhead and lesser scaup.

5. Dauphin Island
An important stopover site for migrant birds including shorebirds, gulls, terns, herons and rails.

6. Fort Morgan Historical Park
An important stopover site for migratory birds including shorebirds, gulls, terns, herons and rails.

7. Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge
An important stopover site for thousands of trans-Gulf migrants.

8. Eglin Air Force Base
Best known for its inland population of red-cockaded woodpeckers, Elgin also has significant coastal habitat for shorebirds and wading birds.

9. Delta National Wildlife Refuge
Large numbers of wading birds nest here, including white ibis, snowy egrets and herons; thousands of shorebirds use the mudflats in winter and during migration, including dunlin, long-billed dowitcher and western sandpiper as well as endangered piping plover.

10. Baptiste Collette Bird Islands
This artificial barrier island, created from dredge spoil, is one of the many Louisiana coastal islands that could be affected. Birds found here include caspian tern, brown pelican, gull-billed tern and black skimmer.

Info from: http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Birds/Archives/2010/Oil-Spill-Birds.aspx