Visitors Guide - Bird Watching
Welcome To Kenmare
The community has much to offer whether
you stop for an hour, a day or longer.
The Des Lacs Refuge, headquartered at Kenmare, has long been a destination point for bird watchers from around the world.
More than 250 bird species occur on the Des Lacs and Souris Loop Refuges.
Bird watchers will delight to glimpse grasshopper sparrows, Baird's sparrows, Sprague's pipit, and northern harrier. Warblers, vireos, and flycatchers are among the songbirds nesting in the secluded wooded coulees.
Species such as short-eared owls and sharp-tailed grouse benefit form the healthy grasslands. These grasslands also provide nesting habitat for blue-winged teal, mallards, gadwall and many other waterfowl.
Spring visitors can enjoy the courtship dance of western grebes (from a lake side trail) or that of the sharptail grouse (from blinds on the refuge). American white pelicans and Giant Canada geese are also common to the refuge.
Contact the refuge at 701-385-4046 for more information.
Click the Des Lacs Refuge link above to see more information
about refuges in the surrounding area and a calendar of public events to
celebrate the centennial of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
Pictures
 Cedar Waxwing |
 Canada Goose on Eggs |
 Hatching Ducklings |
 Waxwings |
 Bobolink Singing |
 Northern Harrier |
 Short-eared Owl |
 Gr. Horned Owl |
 Sharptail Grouse |
 E. Grebe |
 Western Grebes |
 White Pelicans |
 Whooping Cranes |
 Swainsons in swoop |
 Harrier - Immature |
 American Bittern |