Birding trails, car caravan tours, roosting sites, island birding
party & fossil hunt, sandbar hikes, nightly speakers. BIRDS: Wood
storks, white pelicans, bald eagles, ospreys, white ibis, least
terns, raptors, swallows, possible roseate spoonbills, all sorts of
wading birds & neotropicals including painted buntings and other
neat stuff. Tara Wildlife is a 17,300 acre private foundation
situated on the mighty Mississippi River and founded by Maggie
Bryant, renowned international conservationist and former chairman of
The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation.
Each fall thousands of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds migrate from
Canada through Mississippi to their wintering home in Central
America. Like a river, these birds are on the move daily through the
fields and woods of Strawberry Plains. The gardens are thick with
hummingbirds feeding at flowers and feeders to fatten up for their
long journey south. Join hummingbird scientists and naturalists at
Strawberry Plains Audubon Center to witness this spectacular
migratory event. Look close and learn while these tiny birds are
caught and banded right before your eyes. Some folks may be lucky
enough to release one back into the wild.
