10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If you like birds on posts, if seeing “little brown jobs” posing nicely in the distance as you drive or walk along a dirt road only to have it fly away as you approach makes you deliriously happy, then North Dakota is the place for you. Scott Barnes, N.J. Audubon Naturalist, and Linda Mack, N.J.

North Dakota 152

North Dakota Birds Sparrows Blackbirds 152

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Service proposes opening the following refuges to sport fishing for the first time: North Dakota. Units are located along both sides of the river and serve to protect and provide a wide variety of riparian habitats for birds, fish, and other wildlife.” Ardoch National Wildlife Refuge : Open to sport fishing.

Fish 146

Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 146

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly.

2011 258

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 258

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

Baird’s Sparrow, North Dakota. I viewed this Life Bird on my New Jersey Audubon North Dakota trip; it was not an easy bird to find, and a challenging one to photograph. John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. Another sparrow!

2018 173

2018 New Jersey Michigan North Dakota 173