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 has been scheduled this summer:

Washington County, June 25

Dakota County, July 9

Scott County, July 23

Carver County, August 6

Anoka County, August 20

All will be limited to a single day, Twin Cities-area residents will not need to book any lodging, and there will be no MBW fee. for more information, see:

mbwbirds.com/mbweekends.html.


~  JUNE 24, 2025  ~

(previous update June 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.



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



Also see the MBWEEKENDS page

for additional information on MBWeekends ...

the 2025 schedule and registration status of each MBW,

plus MBW summaries and descriptions for this and previous years.


MBWbirds.com

Koochiching County MBW ~ June 2022 ~`Darcy Pinotti photo