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The Grand Forks-East Grand Forks count covers a 15-mile circle whose center is 1 mile east of Grand Forks International Airport on U.S. Highway 2. The count circle includes nearly all of Grand Forks and East Grand Forks. Reports from people who maintain home bird feeding stations are especially desired.

Since coming to UND in 2019, the birdwatcher and aspiring wildlife photographer has taken his passion to a new level, exploring Grand Forks and the surrounding area with keen ears, keen eyes and a Nikon camera with a very large lens, to observe and photograph birds.

Short-eared owls are prey-dependent. If the populations of small rodents drop, the birds look elsewhere for sustenance. In years of high rodent populations, short-eared owl numbers may explode locally. This happened two years ago in Grand Forks County.

Snow buntings are a regular occurrence in the Red River Valley, although their numbers vary from year to year. The buntings nest in the high Arctic, farther north than any other land bird.

Just why evening grosbeaks should appear again is a matter for speculation.

Rough-legged hawks are unmistakable. They are large hawks, but despite their size, they are capable of hovering.

This year brought especially fine warbler watching weather. Not the heat and wind, but the wet and foggy days, days dominated by low pressure, which means heavier air and more difficult travel conditions for such tiny birds as warblers, most of which are smaller than house sparrows. listen live watch live So, the warblers pause in their northward push to rest and refuel. Sometimes, this causes an astonishing abundance of birds of many different species. These special events are known among bird...

watch live Red-bellied woodpeckers first showed up in Grand Forks 20 years ago or so, and by now they have become regular, year-round residents. Its appearance at our place, which is northwest of Grand Forks, amounts to a range expansion. This brings to six the number of woodpecker species on our yard list. We’re missing the red-headed woodpecker. Red-headed woodpeckers have caused quite a sensation in East Grand Forks. A pair is nesting very publicly along the Red River Greenway. They are sa...