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Title: Silent winter? Biopharmed crops are turning wildlife--and us--into lab animals.(genetically modified organisms)
Author: Claire Hope Cummings
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Worldwatch Institute
Volume: 17 Issue: 3 Page: 10(8)Distributed by Thompson Gale

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WILLOWS, California -- A winter storm is arriving here at the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Ducks and geese are circling above the ponds, and as the first rain drops begin to fall, the birds start to drop from the sky by the thousands--feet outstretched, necks arched, and wings beating back as they land on the water. Overhead, hundreds of black ibis etch thin rippling lines against the dark gray clouds. The noise is phenomenal--the squawking of mallards and pintails, the honking of Snow and Ross's geese, along with the sound of their wings flushing the air. In the background, resident redwing blackbirds, already hidden in the reedy marshes, let out an occasional high-pitched trill.