April 2023 - February 2024 MBWeekends & MBWeeks

~  Our 38th Season  ~


• Minnesota Birding Weekends ~ 2023-24 Season


Minnesota Birding Weekends continues to offer unique, modestly priced weekend (and weekday) birding tours throughout Minnesota since we originated in 1986. Since then, we've had nearly 9,800 MBW registrations (MBWeeks included), 440+ MBWeekends, and a composite list of 367 species seen in the state.



• Minnesota Birding Weeks ~ 2023-24 Season


In addition to our MBWeekends, our schedule of out-of-state MBWeeks has now resumed after a limited selection of trips during the past 3 years due to Covid. There have now been more than 120 MBWeeks since the first one in February 1988, with over 720 species now on our composite list. And note the very modest cost of MBWeeks – typically only about a half the cost of similar tours offered by others!


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This MBWbirds website also includes...


• A Birder’s Guide to Minnesota updates


The 5th edition of A Birder's Guide to Minnesota has now been published and became available in early November 2022 (finally!). Accordingly, a continuing series of updates has now begun and becomes an ongoing work in progress for this newest edition. These corrections and additions will provide those using this reference with the most accurate and up-to-date information as it becomes available.


• Birding by Hindsight


This series of 70 bird identification articles is still available in a print edition, with 100+ photographs added and new covers in the 3rd printing. These articles were originally published in The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union, 1995 - 2012.


• Minnesota Sewage Ponds


Municipal sewage ponds (also known as sewage lagoons, settling ponds, wastewater treatment ponds, etc.) are often productive birding sites. Accordingly, an expanded checklist of Minnesota’s 400+ known sewage ponds (now with a link to maps with the locations all the ponds) is included here.


• MBW Checklists


Here are checklists with the 367 species recorded on MBWeekends (all within MN) and the composite MBW list of 720+ species (i.e, MBWeeks & MBWeekends combined).



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For additional information, contact: Kim Richard Eckert, eckertkr@gmail.com (e-mail);

218 349 5953 (cell); 1921 W. Kent Rd., Duluth MN 55812 (U.S. mail).


Also available are GUIDING SERVICES for those interested in a personal or group tour in Minnesota or other states and provinces in the U.S. and Canada.


And finally, what would any self-respecting website be without the obligatory BLOG

...especially this website which always has believed in Social-Media Distancing from Facebook and all the other nonsense out there.


MBWbirds.com

Tropical Parula

High Island-Hill Country MBWeek

April 2012

(KRE photo)

Black Guillemot

North Shore       

MBWeekend November 2009

(KRE photo)

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS & RECENT UPDATES . . .


• The 37th season of MBWeeks and MBWeekends was completed in

    February; accordingly, our 38th season is set to begin in April. See

    mbwbirds.com/mbweekends.html and mbwbirds.com/mbweeks for

    the complete 2023-24 schedule and additional information.

  

• Additional corrections and additions were added to the first set of

    updstes compiled in December; see mbwbirds.com/abgtm.html.

~  MARCH 24, 2023  ~

(previous update February 28)


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A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO MINNESOTA


After 3+ years of writing and editing, plus several  

   delays, the new fifth edition of A Birder's Guide to

   Minnesota was finally published in November 2022.

   (After only 4 months, it is nearly sold out, but plans

   are underway for a second printing, which should

   be available by June.)

For addtional information on this new edition, see

    mbwbirds.com/abgtm.html, which includes an

    ongoing series of corrections and additions to

    keep this guide current.

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Scott Meyer photo


This website continues to be dedicated to the memory of Bob Russell. Please  

   see: mbwbirds.com/blog.html