Migratory birds pass through Arkansas along the Mississippi ... and these incentives are important to keep our working rice fields not only feeding the world but also creating valuable habitat ...

Bird-friendly agriculture can assist in helping waterbirds with rest stops along their seasonal migration routes.

it is almost easier to envision this bird strutting on a historic Noh theater stage than through a field. About 350 rice producers have obtained toki-to-kurasu-sato, or “ibis-friendly farming ...

A field begins to flood after harvest near Knights Landing, California. Paying rice farmers to create “pop-up” migratory bird habitat has since created tens of thousands of acres of temporary ...

a few dozen sandhill cranes stood in shallow water in the middle of a flooded rice field in the Sacramento Valley, about 90 miles north of San Francisco. The cranes, statuesque wading birds with a ...

Grassland Bird Species to Know When you think of the historic Great Plains, you probably imagine vast herds of bison grazing ...

Rice-eating birds, including species like the weaver bird, herons, crows, and sparrows, can devastate rice fields, leading to severe losses in crop yield. The damage is not only economic but also ...

In addition to adding $1 billion of economic value and up to 7,500 jobs for California’s Sacramento Valley, the state's rice fields act as surrogate wetlands for many birds and other wildlife. (Gary ...

birds and snakes reliant on farms without adequate water allocations. “For decades now, our growers have seen firsthand how much their rice fields are used by wildlife all throughout the year ...

Tanzania has culled millions of quelea birds to prevent them from destroying rice fields, using drones and planes to monitor commercial farms, the country's plants and pesticides watchdog said ...

These elegant birds are classified as a Class II protected species in China and are commonly found throughout the Yangtze ...

They plant their crop in the spring. The program pays rice farmers in the birds’ flight path to flood their fields a bit earlier in the fall and leave them flooded later in the spring.