Potholes & Prairie Birding Festival June 4-8, 2008
in Carrington, North Dakota
Birding Package are available in 2008
for spring and summer birding tours
Birding Drives Dakota is a unique coalition of communities working
in concert with four refuges, and a host of other federal, state
and local agencies, to promote Birding and conservation. We have
developed a network of birding trails or, as we are calling them
here, birding drives, that encourage anyone interested in watching
wildlife to go out and appreciate the richness of the Prairie Potholes.
These areas boast such prairie species as Baird's, LeConte's and
Nelson's Sharptail Sparrows, and Chestnut Collared Longspurs.
The drives will take birders to these refuges and other birding"hot
spots."
You've all heard of bird walks and birding trails but this is pothole
country in North Dakota, where the refuges and prairies are so expansive
that the birding resources call for drives rather than walks! They,
along with expert graphic artists, have designed full-color booklets that lay out
in detail our Birding trails.
Birding Drives Dakota
has recruited top professionals to design nine drives that
will take you off the beaten track to the best birding in the
world. Our professionals are biologists and ornithologists who
country and refuges of North Dakota all their lives.
As
a state with 62 National Wildlife
Refuges (more than any other state!)
North
Dakota has a lot to offer-
it's one of those very special places
left in the world.
