From the damage to his fields, affected farmer Li Min-hsiung of Yuli's Ch'ang-liang village concludes: "The ducks probe the mud in search of intact rice seeds, so they always go for the roots of seedlings planted within the past fortnight."
稻田曾受野鴨光顧的玉里鎮長良里農民李敏雄，由秧田受損情況推測：「鴨子用嘴巴伸到泥土中，找尋根部尚未腐爛的稻穀種子吃，因此受損的都是播種不到兩星期的秧苗田。」