If Louisiana’s freshwater coastal marshes get overrun with oil, will ducks adapt and winter elsewhere?
Yes, this is quite likely. Ducks in the winter are pretty adaptable and will move around to find food and to avoid disturbance. However, I do worry ducks will use their traditional habitats and get oiled before they figure out there’s a scarcity of food. After all, ducks looking for food tend to move around a lot, which surely increases their odds of finding an oil patch.
