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TNC Preserves among Oklahoma Birding Hotspots

Young red tailed hawk
Young redtail hawk
© Jay Pruett TNC

In it's March/April Issue of Outdoor Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation listed three of our preserves among the top ten Oklahoma locations for observing and photographing birds!  The list includes such famous Oklahoma birding destinations as Red Slough WMA (#1), Hackberry Flat WMA (#2), Wichita Mountains NWR (#7) and Great Salt Plains NWR (#8).  The Oklahoma TNC preserves included in the prestigious list were Tallgrass Prairie at # 3, J.T. Nickel at # 4 and Black Mesa at # 9.

The list was compiled as a consensus from a polling of the state's leading birding experts.  This is quite an endorsement of the success of these preserves in achieving conservation at a meaningful scale and to the degree that the results are readily visible to some of our state's leading birders.

And of course birds can be an indicator of the general health of an ecosystem and its processes, so, in a way, this form of indirect "monitoring" is verification that the work at the preserves is making a positive impact on the environment.