“Birds are congregated where there is food with water on its feet,” INHS’s aerial waterfowl survey

Pintails loafing on a levee on a refuge along the upper Illinois river near Chillicothe. (Joshua Osborn/Illinois Natural History Survey)

Pintails are one of the takeaways from Joshua Osborn flying the aerial waterfowl survey for the Illinois Natural History Survey on Thursday.

That again that ducks are looking for food and water or, as Osburn more gracefully put it, “birds are congregated where there is food with water on its feet.”