Prior to 2004 I’d never been to South Dakota, but that year a series of unrelated events took me to the Mount Rushmore State three times within an eight-month period. My spring trip was strictly for birding, the summer visit included camping and outdoor photography, and the fall excursion was a hunting trip. All three […]
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When bird watchers die (or, as my dad would say, shoot through), they must go to North Dakota in June. Heaven just wouldn’t measure up. Consider: It’s beautiful, waving with grasses, studded with countless wetlands, overarched by majestic skyscapes. It’s crammed seemingly past capacity with birds, many hard to see elsewhere, all breeding. The air
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Birding Ontario Canada’s most populous province, Ontario is also its most southerly. It is home to the country’s capital, Ottawa, and to Toronto, Canada’s largest city, and boasts 250,000 lakes. The province is bordered to the north by Hudson and James bays, and four of the Great Lakes lap its southern shores. Most of Ontario’s
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Finding birds in Utah is easy. Look for water. That technique worked for my husband and me every time we tried it—beside the Great Salt Lake, in Utah’s corner of the Mohave Desert, along snow melt rivers in central Utah, and out in the western basin and range country. The birds we found in those
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