Louisiana wetlands are disappearing and the oil spill has heightened the problem by soiling additional habitat. With each acre lost, waterfowl and other birds lose a valuable food resource but flooding fallow rice fields, like this one in Vermilion Parish, can provide alternative habitat and food. (Photo by Justin Nobel/吃瓜黑料 Magazine) Gueydan, Louisiana, July 30 This is duck country. There is a duck welcome sign, a duck car wash and in September a duck festival that features duck dashes, duck decoy carving and a duck calling contest. Farmers can make an extra $50,000 a year renting out their fields to duck hunters. So what the duck am I doing here, a dozen miles from the coast and more than 200 miles from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site? Because with oil still in the Gulf and millions of migrant birds headed this way, these fields may provide an important alternative habitat. “In a worst case scenario oil gets into the intermediary marshes and reduces the...