Creating Wetlands for Birds
June 29th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
The U.S. Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative has announced that they are willing to pay up to $20 million to Gulf of Mexico area landowners to flood their fields in hopes of attracting migrating birds to the clean water. An estimated 1 billion birds will soon be migrating through the oil polluted area, and the land lakes wo...
Tags: Conservation, Gulf, habitat, Migratory Bird, oil, US Fish and Wildlife, Wetlands


