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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

10,000 Birds

Bear River MBR (Utah). Quivira NWR (Kansas). Fish & Wildlife Service. Anahuac NWR (Texas). Aransas NWR (Texas). Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually NWR (Washington). Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware). Bosque del Apache NWR (New Mexico). Chinteague NWR (Virginia). Desert NWR (Nevada). Lee Metcalf NWR (Montana). Malheur NWR (Oregon).

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

10,000 Birds

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has published a list of NWRs that have been created or expanded with Duck Stamp funds. Bear River MBR (Utah): 36.9%. Quivira NWR (Kansas): 99.1%. How important are 10,000 or 100,000 or even 1,000,000 acres and where are those acres anyhow? And the U.S. Aransas NWR (Texas): 42.7%.

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