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- For more than a century, ducks and geese migrating from Canada and the central United States have poured into southwest Louisiana to gorge themselves on surplus rice. This is the Louisiana flyway. Under it lies a half a million acres of harvest spillings and naturally downed grain. Over it migrating waterfowl have navigated the same air corridors for generations. Like salmon of the skies, they return year after year to the same field with the same family groupings for the same waiting feast. How they manage this no one knows for sure. Maybe it's in their genes. Maybe they smell the feed on the air. Maybe it's as simple as following their leaders. Maybe they have goose GPS. Whatever it is, tradition rules. The Louisiana Flyway is well established and has been productive for generations of hunters. That's because each year, over fifty million ducks arrive here in a hunger-frenzy, competing for landing space.
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