Lake Sakakawea is also a paradise for birdwatchers, with its unique ecology supporting a wide range of shorebirds and waterfowl. Over bird 100 species can be spotted here, including geese, gulls ...

Pipeline leaks 3M gallons of oil field wastewater in northwest North Dakota; ... The real story of our midsummer visit to McKenzie Slough was the migration of shorebirds.

It can be difficult to identify different species of birds, especially for someone who's not a birder. Often the color plates in the bird books show magnificent specimens in relative ideal ...

Thousands of shorebirds ... north more than 9,000 miles to breed in the Arctic. Most make just one stop on the way — perhaps at a rice field in East Texas or a prairie wetland in South Dakota.

DEVILS LAKE - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed multiple cases of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in North Dakota in wild birds, backyard poultry and commercial poultry ...

Summer is generally not thought of as the season for shorebirds in the North Bay. While some waterbirds are here abundantly all year round — herons, egrets, mallards and Canada geese — the ...