Rice Farmers Create Bird Habitat

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Cy Musiker reports from California’s Sacramento Valley on an experimental project in which rice farmers are flooding their fields in the winter to provide habitat for birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway. Much of the wintering grounds along the flyway has been lost in recent years to development.

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