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Missouri: Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge. About 100 miles north of Kansas City, Loess Bluffs is a key hangout for wintering eagles, about 300 at peak migration in early December. There are ...
As many as 475 bald eagles have been sighted on the refuge in the winter. The refuge annually celebrates the eagle visits with "Eagle Days" celebrations. In February 2013, over one million snow geese were counted. [1] A weekly survey in early 2024 recorded nearly 4,200 trumpeter swans. [2]
Jackie got national attention after that big California winter storm for sitting on her eggs, protecting them from wind and snow for 62 hours. Must watch live cam: Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow ...
Crowley's Ridge, the only portion of the Bluff Hills (74a) ecoregion in Arkansas, is a disjunct series of loess-capped hills surrounded by the lower, flatter Mississippi Alluvial Plain (73). Crowley's Ridge, with elevations of up to 500 feet (150 m), is of sufficient height to have trapped wind-blown silt during the Pleistocene Epoch.
The oxbow lake is in the upper left. Five days later, a levee breach resulted in the refuge closing after being nearly totally inundated. The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station is in the foreground. DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1958, is located along the banks of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Iowa and Nebraska ...
Eagles lost two eggs in 2023. Last year, Jackie and Shadow weren’t so lucky. They abandoned their nest with two unhatched eggs, McClatchy News previously reported.. Jackie laid her first egg of ...
In 1971, there were only five bald eagle nest sites in Texas, according to state wildlife officials. Conservation efforts have helped the birds regain ground, and a 2005 survey found that the ...
The refuge is one of only two that spans portions of four states (the other is Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge).As of 30 September 2007 the area per state was: Wisconsin: 89,637.54 acres (362.75 km 2), Iowa: 51,147.78 acres (206.99 km 2), Minnesota: 33,868.64 acres (137.06 km 2), Illinois: 33,489.57 acres (135.53 km 2).