Friday Feathered Feature
Showcasing a different bird species each week
Goose Pond is a prairie pothole freshwater marsh, a rarity among wetland types in Wisconsin. There are 64 million acres of prairie potholes in the U.S. with most located in Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa and the Canadian Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
Photo by Arlene Koziol
On October 26, Mark led a tour to Wisconsin’s eighth State Natural Area and the site with the longest sustained record for observations and trapping of birds of prey in North America: Cedar Grove Ornithological Research Station.
Photo by Mark Martin
