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Birds on Posts or Birding North Dakota

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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. I wanted to see prairie birds and I wanted to experience a new state.

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A Gathering at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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California is blessed with 51 NWRs and Wildlife Management Areas (WMA), second only to North Dakota with 77. I have put together a video to help you feel the experience I was a privy to on this beautiful fall morning at the refuge. You can check your state’s refuges here , listed by state.

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My eBird 10th Anniversary

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In other words, eBird is effectively a complete history of my birding experiences. My profile page identifies the states that I have not eBirded, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Mississippi, and Vermont. I don’t think I have added any new species, but I did add Alaska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to the group state list.

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Birding In Low Places

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The water this Northern Pintail is in has human poo in it, which completely ruins the experience of seeing this bird. I know part of the experience of birding is taking in the beauty of the outdoors, but (call me crazy) I’m actually in it for the birds. White Lake, North Dakota. Oh wait, it doesn’t.

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Getting a Birder a Common Bird

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Well, no one comes on a field trip at Space Coast trying to see a Carolina Wren except for someone from North Dakota where, from what I can see in eBird , there have been three records of Carolina Wren ever. Anyway, the whole experience got me thinking. No one comes on a field trip at Space Coast trying to see a Carolina Wren !

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Aim Small, Bird Small

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.&# If my caller had said “I want to see ducks, or sparrows, or grassland birds&# I would have suggested another event to him—the Potholes & Prairie Birding Festival in Carrington, North Dakota which is held in June each year. Aim small, bird small.

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Car Birding: A Birder Litmus Test

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Indeed, can you truly experience the wonder of nature from the confines of a vehicle? This is one of many Black Terns flying low over a bridge at Des Lacs National Wildlife Refuge, North Dakota. Always, always, have binoculars and camera within reach when you are driving around on a birding trip. Does that sound so bad?

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