Black Capped Chickadee photo credit: Craig Byrle

Birding - Nature Study

5,000 Acres Exclusively for you.

• 10 Person Limit
• Resort Accomodations
• American Plan or Prepare Your Meals
• 6,000 - acre virgin Ponderosa Pine Forest with 300-year-old trees.
• Little Missouri River and beautiful North Dakota Badlands. Western habitat.
• Remarkable natural science opportunity: long billed curlews, burrowing owls, poorwils - all are nesting species, plus sharptail and sage grouse dancing grounds.
• Photography blinds

Western Meadowlark photo credit: Harold Umber

Birdwatchers come to North Dakota to observe prairie species that are relatively rare elsewhere. The 365 species making the North Dakota Birdwatcher's Checklist include Baird's Sparrow, Le Conte's Sparrow, Sprague's Pipit, Piping Plover, Ferruginous Hawk, Least Tern, Upland Sandpiper, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Bobolinks and Prairie Chicken.

The annual Whooping Crane migration between northern Alberta and the Gulf Coast of Texas brings North America's tallest bird through North Dakota twice each year, usually in April and September. Visitors have a chance to see some of the 200 or so remaining whoopers on their last natural flyway.

Wilsons Phalarope photo credit: Craig Byrle

The world's largest nesting colony of White Pelicans at Chase Lake provide more opportunity for birdwatchers, and the great blue heron is another of North Dakota's visible assets. The state bird is the Western Meadowlark, and travelers are treated to a steady concert by this species on every state highway and byway.

Western King Bird photo credit: Chris Grondahl

Observers at wildlife refuges can thrill to the courtship antics of the Western Grebe. Several national wildlife refuges and the ND Game and Fish Department have sharp-tailed grouse observation blinds available for public use.

For more information on areas in North Dakota for viewing birds and other wildlife, copies of the North Dakota Wildlife Viewing Guide (Falcon Press) may be purchased at the ND Game and Fish Dept. for $3.00.

Bird List from the Logging Camp Ranch Area Original List taken from July '94. New birds added as needed Slope County Observers - Tom Gibson, Mike Barnhart, Jean Legge

Lark Sparrow American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow White-Breasted Nuthatch Yellow-Breasted Chat Wood Duck Robin Rufous-sided Towhee (western) Lazuli Bunting Eastern Bluebird Common Poorwill Mourning Dove Field Sparrow Magpie Red-headed Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird Western Kingbird Red-Breasted Nuthatch Belted Kingfisher Crow Barn Swallow Kestrel Flicker (Red Shafted) Cowbird W. Meadowlark Killdeer Grackle Upland Sand Piper photo credit: Harold Umber

Chestnut Collared Longspur photo credit: Craig Byrle Northern Harrier Red Crossbill Black & White Warbler American White Pelican Red-winged Blackbird Brown Thrasher Mountain Bluebird Yellow-Rumped Warbler (Audubon's Race) Great Horned Owl Red-tailed Hawk Loggerhead Shrike Burrowing Owl Horned Lark Golden Eagle Cedar Waxwing Common Nighthawk Yellow Warbler Red-eyed Vireo Common Yellowthroat Pine Siskin Gray Catbird Great Blue Heron Ring-necked Pheasant Sharp-tail Grouse Black Capped Chickadee Warbling Vireo