Quote Originally Posted by flopduster View Post
It tickles me when people think that flooding row crops so they can kill 2-3 x the average number of birds as hunters on public land think they are helping ducks.
You think Carters Big Island is helping those ducks on the refuge beside them?
How about those big money outfits in Missouri that buy or lease land next to the refuges there and kill thousands of birds in their “habitat”?
They compete to pull birds away from the refuges so they can kill them, not because they want to give those birds “habitat”.
Flooding unharvested crops is their best method. It is done to kill ducks, lots of them.
Even if they plant areas they do not hunt, it is so they can kill higher numbers in the areas they do hunt.

Conserving areas in the breeding range is the only habitat that matters. There are plenty of refuges and food for ducks.


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Well said.