MINNESOTA BIRDING WEEKENDS
April 2025 - January 2026
Our Fortieth and Final Season
500 Minnesota Birding Weekends
~ The End of an Era ~
Since 1986, Minnesota Birding Weekends (MBWs) has been presenting unique modestly priced weekend (and weekday) birding tours throughout Minnesota – with this 2025-26 season being our 40th and final year.
Our final year has featured a season with MBWeekend fees which have been even more modest – i.e., a $0 fee for each MBW. And our final MBW in Duluth will include a Grand Fortieth Year Reunion – so be sure to mark January 9-10-11, 2026 on your calendars.
Our first 12 MBWeekends of the season (through two Tofte-based MBWs and a trip down the Mississippi in November), plus the four summer MBWednesdays, have now been completed. For their summaries, which include John Quinn's World-Famous JTL Reports, see mbwbirds.com/mbweekends.html.
~ NOVEMBER 27, 2025 ~
(previous update November 12)
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This series of Corrections and Additions continues
to be updated, now that this guide is in its Second
Printing – which includes several minor changes
in the text since the First Printing, a new cover,
and non-spiral binding).
For the most recent updates and additional
information on this new edition and the 2nd
printing, see: mbwbirds.com/abgtm.html. Be
sure to note the comments on the QR links
to county maps (which have far more detail
than the base maps on the pages), and on
how to download any map in advance for use
when you're in areas without cell service.
Note that the February 2024 South Texas MBW
was the final MBWeek, with none scheduled
for the 2024-25 season or thereafter.
After 35 seasons (beginning in February 1988),
more than 125 MBWeeks, and 733 species,
I decided to retire from scheduling MBWeeks.
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THE SET OF CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS
TO A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO MINNESOTA
HAS AGAIN BEEN UPDATED IN JANUARY, APRIL, and JUNE 2025
A reminder that the final MBWeekend and 40th MBW Reunion
will take place in Duluth on January 9 - 10 - 11, 2026.
if you have participated in MBWs at any time
in these past 40 years, email eckertkr@gmail.com for Information
on the field trips, group dinners, and informal programs.
MBWbirds.com
Koochiching County MBW ~ June 2022 ~ Darcy Pinotti photo
