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Bird Calendars 
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March Bird Calendar for the Omaha
Nebraska area
by Babs Padelford
Nebraska is fortunate to have one of
the most spectacular examples of migration - the Sandhill Crane stopover
during March along the Platte River between Grand Island and Lexington.
The waterfowl migration is also an exciting natural event, particularly
the concentrations of a half million Snow Geese and 100,000 Greater
White-fronted Geese in the Rainwater Basins.
Following is a partial list of birds that migrate
through the midlands and approximate times to see them.
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Species |
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Waterfowl:
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Snow Geese and Greater White-fronted Geese
Look for Ross' Geese with flocks of Snow Geese
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Riverton Wildlife Management Area in Fremont County, Iowa
Funk Lagoon and Sacramento-Wilcox Wildlife Area in Phelps County
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| Ducks
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Wehrspann Lake west of Papillion, Cunningham Lake north of Omaha, and Lake
Manawa in Council Bluffs
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Raptors |
| Bald Eagle
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Lake Manawa, IA; Riverton Wildlife Management Area in Fremont County, Iowa
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| Other raptors begin moving north during the month
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Waubonsie State Park in southwest Iowa are good lookout spots
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Shorebirds
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| Woodcocks
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Lake Manawa, IA (hiking trail)
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| Common Snipe, Killdeer
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also arrive this month
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Gulls |
| Ring-billed, Herring, and possibly Thayer's Gull
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Lake Manawa, IA; Cunningham Lake, NE
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| Bonaparte's Gulls
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begin arriving the latter part of March - Cunningham Lake, NE
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Passerines
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| Eastern Phoebe
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last two weeks of March
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| Northern Shrikes
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head north by mid-March
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| Loggerhead Shrikes
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arrive mid-March
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| Fox Sparrow
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arrives the last two weeks of March
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