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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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Others were established to protect specific bird species or subspecies. Bear River MBR (Utah). Quivira NWR (Kansas). according to eBird , including: Aransas (368 species); Bosque del Apache (360); Parker River (359); Laguna Atascosa (356); Santa Ana (342); Anahuac (329); Pea Island (326); and Edwin B. Billy Frank Jr.

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I Get Back

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Four moments (and species) stand out in my own personal birding renaissance: I put an improvised birdbath in my yard to see if I can get the House Sparrows to stop munching on my lettuce plants, and a stunning Black-vented Oriole arrives to bathe. I realize I’m not in Kansas (well, California) anymore. I have birding buddies!

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

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As of mid-October 2018, the Collaborative had submitted more than 1,700 checklists and observed 618 species in the United States. The heat map is revealing: Unsurprisingly for a site founded and run by two New Yorkers (one of whom literally wrote the book on birding New York), the Empire State boasts the highest number of species (316).

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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as to number of species). Aransas NWR (368 species and 42.7% Bear River MBR (Utah): 36.9%. Quivira NWR (Kansas): 99.1%. The list of NWRs from 80-90% is impressive as well: Anahuac NWR in Texas (80.0%), Edwin B. Forsythe NWR in New Jersey (84.3%), Laguna Atascosa NWR in Texas (86.3%), and Ottawa NWR in Ohio (83.8%).

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