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To tempt the birds. with 1 million ducks and a million geese spending the winter here in coastal louisiana, the key is to stop them before they reach the oiled marshlands of the gulf. that's just about a mile from here. so they have to be given a good reason to stop short of their regular destination such as plenty of clean water, fresh vegetation, and food. >> you have a lot of seeds that are produced by the vegetation. there's also lots of inve invertibraets, clams, that's all oil-free. >> reporter: scientists we spoke with are extremely concerned about birds digesting oily seafood. since th...

Bad as some of the other oil spills. >> you mentioned the exxon valdez. that's a little more than 20 years ago. what they found in that spill in some fisheries, for example, is that four years later they saw the effects. all of a sudden a lot of the fish were gone. so again, you're looking at this from a long term perspective as well because obviously right now we can't see the oil. how can they make this sort of prediction like, it can't be that big of a deal, if something had happened a long time down the line? >> first of all, i don't think anybody's saying "this is no big deal." look at th...