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Marquette County truly is a Central Wisconsin birding hotspot! Bird along the hiking trails of Aldo Leopold's scenic sand country and John Muir's rolling hills and glacial lakes. Enjoy the Greater Sandhill Crane Capitol of the World.
Visit restored prairies, a rare restored oak savannah, pristine sedge-meadows, floating bogs and other wetlands, national and state wildlife refuges, Ennis Lake in the John Muir Park, Lake Puckaway and the upper Fox River. Learn the songs, calls and many behaviors of the birds. See other wildlife and learn to read the signs of wild creatures in their natural habitats.
Depending upon season and weather, the probable number of species you will record is between 100 and 150! Very likely you will be able to see and hear Common Loons (in May only), grebes, Double-crested Cormorant and Great Blue Heron nesting colonies, Least and American Bitterns, waterfowl, Turkey Vultures, endangered Red-shouldered Hawks and other raptors, nesting Bald Eagles and Osprey, Wild Turkey, Northern Bobwhite, Yellow Rails, Virginia Rails and Soras, Common Moorhens, nesting Sandhill Cranes, shorebirds, the courtship rituals of American Woodcock (skydancing) and Common Snipe (winnowing), Common Terns, endangered Forster's Terns and Black Tern colonies, owls, Whippoor-whills, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds, Pileated and Red-headed Woodpeckers, eight nesting Wisconsin flycatcher species (including Alder, Willow, Acadian, Least and E. Wood-Pewee); all six Wisconsin swallow species, Marsh and Sedge Wren colonies, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Eastern Bluebirds and three other thrushes, three vireos, nesting Blue-winged, Black-and-white and Yellow Warblers, nesting American Redstarts and Ovenbirds, up to twenty spring and fall migrant warblers, Scarlet Tanagers, Indigo Buntings, Dickcissels (June and July), LeConte's and Henslow's Sparrows, five grassland sparrows, Bobolink colonies, Eastern and Western Meadowlarks, Yellow-headed Blackbirds, orioles and many others.
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