Oklahoma's Special Birds
Oklahoma's south-central location in the United States makes it an ideal place to look for a wide variety of birds. Little River National Wildlife Refuge in the southeastern corner has bottomland swamp habitat with birds like Anhinga, Fish Crow, and Swainson's Wabler, while Sequoyah NWR not far to the north sits beside a lake that attracts scores of wintering waterfowl and Bald Eagles. The Wichita Mountains in the central part of the state provide a hilly, wooded contrast to the surrounding prairie, and are home to numerous birds from both east and west, including the endangered Black-capped Vireo, otherwise found mainly in the central Texas Hill Country. Further north, the Salt Plains offer habitat for migrating and nesting shorebirds, cranes, and Least Terns. Finally, Black Mesa at the western tip of the pandhandle has Oklahoma's highest point, and arid grasslands and rocky buttes home to birds rarely if ever found elsewhere in the state.
avg. score: 28 of 156 (18%)
required scores: 1, 2, 6, 24, 45
