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MINNESOTA BIRDING WEEKENDS
April 2025 - January 2026
Our Fortieth and Final Season
~ 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 will feature a season with MBWeekend fees which will be even more modest – i.e., the fee for each MBW will be $0. 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 five MBWs of the season (Yellow Medicine, Polk, Rock-Pipestone-Nobles, NW Minnesota, and, most recently, Houston County) have now been completed.
...And be sure to note that another series of Twin Cities-based MBWEDNESDAYS is planned for this summer. The schedule of counties and dates is still a work in progress, but all will be limited to a single day, Twin Cities-area residents will not need to book any lodging, and – of course – there will be no MBW fee. More on all this (including registration) will be available on June 18.
~ JUNE 12, 2025 ~
(previous update May 31)
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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 2025
Please see the MBWEEKENDS page
for additional information on MBWeekends and MBWednesdays ...
the 2025 schedule and registration status of each MBW,
plus MBW summaries and descriptions for this and previous years.