This MBWbirds.com website incorporates:

1. •Minnesota Birding Weekends  ~  2012-13 Season
   

1. Minnesota Birding Weeks & Weekends (MBW) now enters its 27th 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 more than 350 MBWeekends, over 6,000 registrations, a composite Minnesota list of 355 species, and all 87 Minnesota counties will have been covered after this season.
   

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5. ~ Status of all MBWeekends updated 20 January 2012 ~
   

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1. •Minnesota Birding Weeks  ~  2012-13 Season
   

1. In addition to our wide assortment of MBWeekends, our schedule of out-of-state MBWeeks (there have been more than 60 of these since 1988) will not only continue to destinations like Churchill & Manitoba, Newfoundland, Washington & British Columbia, California, and South Texas, but expand with the addition of new spring MBWeeks in Texas and Arizona, plus a winter MBWeek in Florida. And note the relatively inexpensive cost of MBWeeks – typically less than half (sometimes closer to a third!) of other tour company fees for similar trips.
   

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5. ~ Status of all MBWeeks updated 20 January 2012 ~
   

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1. •A Birder’s Guide to Minnesota
   

1. Updates to the fourth edition of A Birder's Guide to Minnesota (revised 2002) are  included here and in the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union’s website and Minnesota Birding newsletter. These updates are to provide those who use this standard reference to Minnesota's birding locations with accurate and up-to-date information.
   

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5. ~ Most recent update February 2011 ~
   

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.
   

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5. ~ Most recent article in Fall 2011 issue of The Loon ~
   

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.
   

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5. ~ Most recent update October 2011 ~
   

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For any additional information on MBWbirds.com, please contact Kim Richard Eckert at eckertkr@gmail.com. Also available are GUIDING SERVICES for birders interested in Minnesota or other states/provinces in the U.S. and Canada. And, of course, what would any self-respecting website be without the obligatory BLOG ?