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Bird Watching Anyone?

Anyone up for a Spring photo shoot to Central Kansas? These 2 sites are fairly close together. It's estimated that nearly half of all migrating birds east of the Rockies pass through here each spring.

Cheyenne Bottoms

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"All wildlife watchers should make an annual pilgrimage to Cheyenne Bottoms…" say Bob Gress and George Potts, authors of Watching Kansas Wildlife.

Cheyenne Bottoms is a 41,000-acre lowland located six miles northeast of Great Bend, Kansas. The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks operates 19,857 acres as a wildlife management area. The Nature Conservancy owns and manages 7,300 acres adjacent to Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area.

Quivira National Wildlife Refuge

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(NWR) located in south-central Kansas, lies in an area where the

eastern and western prairies meet

and blend. In 1955, the Migratory

Bird Commission approved the

purchase of land to create the

Refuge, thus providing food, water,

and nesting areas for migratory

waterfowl in this area of Kansas.

Quivira NWR is one of over

545 refuges in the National Wildlife

Refuge System – a network of lands

set aside and managed by the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service specifically

for wildlife. The Refuge System

is a living heritage, conserving

wildlife and habitat for people today

and for generations to come.

A Place Known The name “Quivira” comes from a

for Wildlife Native American tribe living in the

area when the Spanish explorer,

Coronado, visited in 1541. In quest of gold, treasures, and the fabled “Seven Cities of Cibola,” he found instead fertile rasslands, abundant wildlife, and small agricultural villages. The Native Americans, and later, the early settlers, hunted

waterfowl in these marshes.

Shortly after the turn of the century, commercial hunting provided wagon loads of waterfowl to Kansas City restaurants and other eastern cities.

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