Not only is this false, it is absolutely ludicrous. An implicit goal of DU conservation programs in important migration and winter areas is to provide foraging habitat that simply gives birds options to do what they have always done, which is migrate south in fall to winter areas and return in spring to breeding areas. During the winter and migration period, the primary habitat requirement the birds have is food. To a lesser extent, open water must be present, and disturbance must be at a low enough level so as not to cause birds to leave. If winter weather makes food unavailable to birds through snow and ice cover, or if disturbance is too high, or if the birds exhaust food supplies, they have no choice but to move on in search of other suitable habitat. When birds are forced to move, it is DUs goal that they find suitable habitat in which they can find food and other resources they need to survive the winter and migration period. DU does not dump grain or in any other way supplement food availability on any projects. DU does try hard to provide feeding habitat in the form of natural wetlands, flooded harvested crop fields, and other wetlands that collectively attempt to restore the base of feeding habitat that existed historically - nothing more, nothing less. DU also promotes and encourages annual wetland habitat management practices that maximize production of natural foods in moist soil impoundments. (Note: There have been occasions in prairie Canada where the Canadian Federal or Provincial government, and very rarely DU, has planted lure crops to attract waterfowl away from standing, unharvested grain, or swathed grain on private land. This program is akin to a form of crop insurance, and it only serves to attract birds away from commercially important private crop fields until such time as harvest can be completed in fall).