This MBWbirds.com website incorporates:

1. •Minnesota Birding Weekends
   

1. Minnesota Birding Weeks & Weekends (MBW) now enters its 25th season offering unique, modestly priced in-state birding trips in association with the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union (we originated back in 1986 as MOU Birding Weekends). Since 1986, we have now accumulated a total of 320 MBWeekends, more than 5,700 registrations, and a composite Minnesota list of 355 species.
   

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3. (Status of each MBWeekend updated 25 July 2010)
   

1. •Minnesota Birding Weeks
   

1. In addition to our wide assortment of MBWeekends, our schedule of out-of-state MBWeeks will not only continue to places like South Texas (twice), Big Bend, Arizona (both summer & winter), and California, but expand with the addition of destinations guided previously for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours: e.g., Colorado Grouse; Churchill, Manitoba; and Nova Scotia-Newfoundland.
   

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3. (Status of each MBWeek updated 25 July 2010)
   

1. •A Birder’s Guide to Minnesota
   

1. Updates to the 4th edition of A Birder's Guide to Minnesota (revised 2002), will be periodically included as needed here and in the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union newsletter, Minnesota Birding. These updates are to provide those who use this standard reference to Minnesota's birding locations with the most accurate and up-to-date information possible.
   

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3. (Most recent update July 2010)
   

1. •Birding by Hindsight
   

1. Since 1995, this series of articles on bird identification has included an installment in every issue of The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists’ Union.
   

1. •Minnesota Sewage Ponds
   

1. Municipal sewage ponds (also known as sewage lagoons, settling ponds, wastewater treatment ponds, etc.) are often productive birding sites. Accordingly, a checklist of Minnesota’s sewage ponds is included here.
   

1. •Identification References
   

1. Under construction: an annotated list of ID references. (Since not all field guides are created equal, and the identification of many species is beyond the scope of the standard field guides, additional identification references are often recommended and even essential.)
   

1. •Photographic Gallery
   

1. Under construction: a gallery of selected photos. (These photos will be chosen either to illustrate specific bird identification topics or to highlight what was observed on previous MBWs and other trips; also see the photo galleries currently included with some of the MBW summaries.)
   

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3. Note: The two birds above were photographed on previous MBWeekends –
   

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5. • Northern Hawk Owl / Sax-Zim Bog, St. Louis Co., January 2010 / Benjamin Schwartz
   

6. • Black Guillemot / Taconite Harbor, Cook County, November 2009 / Kim Eckert
   

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For additional information on MBWbirds.com, contact Kim Eckert, eckertkr@gmail.com. Also available are Guiding Services for visiting birders and for groups interested in other states/provinces in the U.S. and Canada. (And, of course, what would a website be without the obligatory BLOG ?)