For the birds
Whether you’re a twitcher, a pisher or just a lister, Red River North is a bird- watcher’s paradise.
Plan your big year here.
Check these hotspots to see who flew in this weekend! Maybe you should visit too?
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Lockport
More than a third of the entire population of American White Pelicans breeds in Manitoba. Locally known as the Lockport Air Squadron, they are easily spotted each summer along the Red River, especially at Lockport, where they are frequently accompanied by Double Crested Cormorants.
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Oak Hammock Marsh
Situated on a major migration flyway, Oak Hammock Marsh is one of North America’s birding hotspots offering 36 sq km of wetland marsh, aspen-oak bluff, waterfowl lure crops, and some of Manitoba’s last remaining patches of tall-grass prairie. Over 300 species of bird can be found here, along with hundreds of thousands of seasonally migrating waterfowl.
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Selkirk Park
A riverside park with natural woodland and marsh habitats, attracive to myriad species of bird including woodpeckers, sparrows, warblers, Osprey, Bald Eagles, gulls, and many more.
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BIrds Hill Provincial Park
This 3500 hectare park of oak and aspen forest, cedar bog, stands of black spruce, and open grassland is home to birds, deer, and wildflowers.
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Netley-Libau Marsh
Stretching almost 25 kilometres from the north end of Selkirk to the south basin of Lake Winnipeg, this extensive marsh system is renowned for an abundance of waterfowl: grebes, ducks, and coots; as well as blackbirds, wrens, warblers, waterthrushes and many more.