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  Featured State/Province:
  Ontario
  

Amherst Island
44.18 N   76.75 W
Come in December to see Owls. You can find them during daylight hours. The woodlot near the eastern end of the island is a good spot. Also scan the ice floes just offshore.

Long Point
42.58 N   80.25 W
This point thrusts 19 miles into the northern edge of Lake Erie. Visit in the spring for spectacular warbler migrations and great hawk flights. The Long Point Bird Observatory is a good place to start  -- pick up an annotated checklist.

Niagara Falls
43.06 N   79.04 W
Come in December to see Gulls. In general, birds are easier to see from the Ontario side of the river. Specialties include Iceland, Lesser Black-backed, Black-headed and Little Gull. Look for Ducks on the river.

Point Pelee
41.56 N   82.31 W
This tip of Ontario extends into Lake Erie, forming a welcome site for migrating birds in May and a natural "funnel" in the fall. Warblers in the spring are everywhere. Watch the flight of Monarch butterflies and huge flocks of Blue Jays in the fall. Considered by most as one of the Top 10 birding spots in North America.

Featured Hot Spot:
Rocky Mountain National Park

Come for a real Rocky Mountain high! Blue Grouse, Three-toed Woodpecker, Clark's Nutcracker, Red Crossbill, White-tailed Ptarmigan and Rosy-Finches. Black Swift in the summer and magnificent scenery all year round.

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Featured Organization:
Birder's Exchange
"Getting the tools to the people who need them"

Birder's Exchange is a wonderful program that collects and distributes equipment and books to benefit bird conservation, education and research in Central and South America and the Caribbean. You can help by donating your old binoculars and field guides. These are given to researchers, local park rangers and others that do not have the proper equipment to study the birds. Birder's Exchange is a joint project of the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences and the American Birding Association.