Wildlife Refuges and Birdwatching North Dakota

In North Dakota wildlife refuges you can go birdwatching. See rare wild birds, white pelicans, snow geese, ducks, piping plover, bald eagles, blue heron, Canadian geese and many other birds. View Bison, elk, white tailed deer, prairie dogs and other wildlife. There are more wildlife refuges in ND than any other state. All wildlife refuges have automobile tours.

see also State Parks

Wildlife Refuges

J. ClarkSalyer National Refuge
Souris River bottomland, 59000 acres from Bantry to Canadian border, marshes, woodlands, river bottoms and sandhills
North of Upham

Dec Lacs Lostwood and Upper Souris National Widlife refuge
West of Kenmar, Northwest of Minot, see white pelicans and rare wild birds.

Arrowwood National Wildlife Refuge
North of Jamestown, over 250 species of birds

Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Northwest of Medina, 4400 acres, white pelican breeding colonies

Sullys Hill National Game Preserve
south of Devils Lake, see elkl, bison, deer, prairie dogs and wild birds

Audubon National Wildlife refuge
east of Coleharbor, over 221 species of wild birds

Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Southeast of Moffit, contains many shore birds

Lake Ilo National Wildlife refuge
near Dunn Center, waterfowl and shobirds in wetlands and lake area, see snow geese, ducks, piping plover, bald eagles, blue heron and Canadian geese

Tewaukon National Wildlife Refuge
south of Cayuga, migrating waterfowl and over 243 wild bird species

Birding Trails

Steele Birdging Drive
top 10 birding hotspots in North America, explore Chase Lake, Slade and Long Lake refuges
Steele

Bismarck Mandan Birding Drive
best birding sites in Missouri River Valley, explore Cross Ranch State Park and  Nature Preserve, river bottoms, prairies, wetlands, Long Lake National wildlife refuge
Bismarck and Mandan area

Lake Region Birding Trail
explore wildlife refuges, state parks, Sulys Hill NationalGamePreserve and Lake Alice National Wildlife refuge
Devils Lake area

Central Dakota Birdging drive
over 300 bird species, 3 routsalong Souris and Sheyenne river, Lone Tree wildlife area, lakes, Wintering river wildlife refuge
Drake and Anamoose

Birding drives Dakota
Carrington and Jamestown, Audubon's Alkali Lake Sanctuary, Lake Juanita and Hawk's Nest Ridge

Birdging on the Lewis and Clark Trail
Williston, explore Willsiton Marsh,Lewis and Clark State Park, Theodore Roosevelt Natinal Park, Little Missouri National Grassland and Lake Zahl National Wildlife refuge

Other birding areas are Bottineau, Minot, Kulm and Dunseith.

State Forests are another good place to view wildlife and birdwatch.

State Forests

Turtle Mountain State Forest
West of Lake Metigoshe

Homen State Forest
East of Lake Metigoshe, 100 speiciesof nesting birds

Tetrault Woods State Forest
South of Walhalla

Sheyenne StateForest
Northwest of Lisbon

Denbeigh Experimental Forest
West of Towner

State Forests are another good place to view wildlife and birdwatch.

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