10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2019
Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Dozens of WPAs are located in the Rainwater Basin , a region south of the Platte River in south-central Nebraska, at the narrowest point of the Central Flyway.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
The resulting properties—WPAs—are small ponds, wetlands, and associated grasslands, primarily in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, but also in Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa. Mallards at Rainwater WMD in Nebraska (USFWS). Snow Geese over Kulm WMD in North Dakota (USFWS). million acres.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2019
For example, Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico is renowned for its winter birding, featuring huge numbers of Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese, among others. The Rainwater Basin in Nebraska is one of the most significant waterfowl stopover areas on the continent. million in activity and 19 jobs.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2019
Although little-known, WPAs provide critical breeding, resting, and nesting habitat for millions of ducks, geese, and swans, as well as shorebirds and grassland species. Dozens of WPAs are located in the Rainwater Basin , a region south of the Platte River in south-central Nebraska, at the narrowest point of the Central Flyway.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2012
Government to set up several forts, including Fort Mitchell in western Nebraska. Birders at Vicksburg counted 45 species, including Snow Geese , Barred Owl , Brown Thrasher , 152 Yellow-rumped Warblers , Fish Crow , and Eastern Towhee. , Kestrel , Northern Harrier , Great Blue Heron , and Wild Turkey.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Lifers includes Gambel’s Quail and Neotropic Cormorant, but the real highlights were the morning fly-out of Sandhill Cranes and the evening fly-in of Snow Geese. For example, not much can beat the experience of seeing a Bald Eagle scare up thousands of Snow Geese at Sacramento NWR. Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. Isn’t that neat?
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