A growing number of Arkansas farmers are taking up the seasonal fall and winter practice of flooding their rice fields after harvest to provide refuge to migratory waterfowl. The practice, promoted by ...

ARBUCKLE, Calif.—On a misty December morning, 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.

Black-necked stilts peer out from bright blades of green, hunkering low to avoid detection, and a American bittern tilts its beak skyward, showing off brown camouflaged stripes on its sides. Fluffy ...

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 wetlands ...

The heart of Cajun Country in Louisiana’s southwest prairie region is bracing for an influx of visitors for a unique agritourism event. The 16th annual Yellow Rails and Rice Festival has birders from ...

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 ...

Every July, the western sandpiper, a dun-colored, long-beaked bird, leaves the shores of Alaska and migrates south. It may fly as far as the coast of Peru, where it spends several months before making ...

Mary Atieno, a rice farmer at the West Kano irrigation scheme carries her already harvested rice in readiness for drying. [Collins Oduor/Standard] Rice farmers in the Ahero Irrigation Scheme are ...

A loping breeze tugged and pulled at the straw colored weeds, the only things in motion in Donald Bransford's drought-stricken fields in Colusa County, which this time of year would normally be ...