Audubon Great River Birding Trail
The Best Birding Places Along the Mississippi River
National Audubon has launched a new web site featuring the birds that migrate and breed along the Mississippi River, and the best places to see them.
The Great River Birding Trail is a project of National Audubon—a collection of great birding sites along the Mississippi River that aims to provide information to birders who live in or visit communities on the river, and to increase awareness of the need to protect habitats that birds and other wildlife need.
The web site currently provides detailed information about selected sites in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Very user-friendly, the site provides three levels of maps. The first level allows you to select the state of particular interest to you. Clicking on a state brings you to a second level of map showing all the counties near the Mississippi River in the state. Click on a county and you’ll see a map of the county, with green buttons showing Great River Birding Trail sites.
Each site on the county map has a link to the relevant information about it:
- directions for finding it
- when you can visit
- fees to expect, if any
- site description
- cultural and historical significance
- significance to birders
While still incomplete, National Audubon’s Great River Birding Trail web site is sure to evolve into a great tool to get to know the birds of the Mississippi. Planning a trip that involves some bird watching in that area is going to be so much easier.
Visit the Audubon Great River Birding Trail web site.
Read about other great birding places:
Hoffman and Swinburne – Bird Isles
