This MBWbirds website also includes...
• A Birder’s Guide to Minnesota Updates •
The fifth edition of A Birder's Guide to Minnesota has now been published and became available in early November 2022 ... along with a Second Printing with minor changes in May 2023. A series of updates has started and is now an ongoing work in progress for this newest edition: these Corrections and Additions will rovide those using this book with the most accurate and up-to-date information as it becomes available.
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.
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.
Here are checklists with the 370 species recorded on MBWeekends (all within MN) and the composite MBW list of 730+ species (i.e., MBWeeks & MBWeekends combined).
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For additional information, contact: Kim Richard Eckert, eckertkr@gmail.com (email);
218 349 5953 (cell/text); 1921 W. Kent Rd., Duluth MN 55812 (U.S. mail).
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.
Accordingly, see my BLOG for some memorable thoughts from other writers,
and an obituary of the most memorable person I have ever known.
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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 presented a unique, modestly priced schedule of weekend (and weekday) birding tours throughout Minnesota – with this 2025-26 season being our 40th and final year. During these past four decades, there have been more than 9,000 registrations (with MBWeeks included), over 470 MBWeekends, and a composite list of 370 species seen in the state. The end of an era, indeed!
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
~ JANUARY 19, 2025 ~
(previous update January 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.
Please 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 have 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 ON JANUARY 19
Please see the MBWEEKENDS page
for additional information on Minnesota Birding Weekends...
how to register, registration status of each MBW, their summaries
and decriptions from previous years, etc.
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