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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

Russell National Wildlife Refuge , more than a million acres of prairie, badlands, coulees, and the massive Fort Peck Reservoir on the Missouri River. The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away. Like the Rockies, though, this is a harsh beauty, not an ideal climate for the human animal by any means.

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Cavity Nesting Birds of North America and Their Babies!

10,000 Birds

Even though they naturally nest in burrows mainly created by ground squirrels, badgers and prairie dogs, Burrowing Owls ( Athene cunicularia ) also use artificial burrows. I may be stretching it here but I am going to include my all time favorite raptor here as a cavity nesting bird.