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Birding in Northern Minnesota
1/27/2021 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Northland birders watching Northern Boreal birds in the Sax-Zim Bog.
Northland birders watching Northern Boreal birds in the Sax-Zim Bog.
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The Slice
Birding in Northern Minnesota
1/27/2021 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Northland birders watching Northern Boreal birds in the Sax-Zim Bog.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Alexis] The feeders have made it a lot easier to see these birds 'cause even though they're here and we come here to see them, they're pretty low density across the landscape as a whole.
When there's no feeders around, you can drive for hours and see nothing.
Yeah.
(laughs) My name is Alexis Powell.
Couldn't resist coming up here to this Haxenberg.
The first time I ever came here was in 2004.
And I came up that year because that was a great gray owl invasion year.
Yeah this trip is a more casual just see the regular cast of characters which aren't very many, right.
I mean, if you're really being casual, you could easily come up here for a day and only see a dozen species, but some of them are hard to find anywhere else in the lower 48.
The pine grosbeaks.
Yeah.
Yeah that's a real treat.
Birds come further south here on a more reliable basis than they do east and west of this point.
So that's the draw.
She has to see all this unusual, our northern boreal species.
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