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Loess Bluffs NWR
Coordinates: 40.068893, -95.23534 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Cattail Pool and Moist Soil Units
Coordinates: 40.0885458, -95.2302969 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Eagle Pool
Coordinates: 40.0629832, -95.2425916 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Headquarters
Coordinates: 40.0687935, -95.2258546 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Mallard Marsh
Coordinates: 40.0997407, -95.2767849 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--North Woods
Coordinates: 40.1055508, -95.2536321 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Pelican Pool
Coordinates: 40.0637528, -95.2571297 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Pintail Pool
Coordinates: 40.0887099, -95.2718067 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Snow Goose Pool
Coordinates: 40.0846573, -95.2643926 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Loess Bluffs NWR--Teal Pond
Coordinates: 40.1129523, -95.2715868 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge
Originally known as Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, the name was changed to Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge on January 11, 2017, in order to remove the derogatory word squaw from the name.

The refuge was established on August 23, 1935, as an Executive Order 7156 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a refuge feeding and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife. The refuge includes 7,440 acres of wetlands, grasslands, and forests along the eastern edge of the Missouri River floodplain. Overlooking the refuge from the east, the loess bluffs habitat is a geological formation of fine silt deposited after the last glacial period. These unique hills stretch from about 30 miles south of St. Joseph, Missouri, to extreme northern Iowa. Some of the last parcels of native plants, remnants of a once vast native prairie, can be found here. Loess, pronounced “luss,” soils support Missouri’s native prairie plants such as Indian grass, big bluestem, blazing star, yucca, beard-tongue, and skeleton plant.

The refuge was officially named one of America’s top 500 Globally Important Bird Areas by the National Audubon Society in 2001. The Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network designated the refuge a “Site of Regional Importance” in 2007.

Location and Directions The refuge is located in northwest Missouri near Mound City. The refuge is 30 miles northwest of St. Joseph, Missouri, 100 miles north of Kansas City, Missouri, and 100 miles south of Omaha, Nebraska. Take Interstate 29 to Exit 79 just south of Mound City, Missouri then travel south 2.5 miles on US-159.

Bald Eagles migrate to the refuge by late fall and early winter. As many as 300 immature and adult bald eagles and an occasional golden eagle may be seen during the migration peak, usually by the first of December. A record 476 bald eagles were counted during a 2001 survey. The first recorded successful bald eagle nest fledged three young eaglets in the summer of 1997. A few bald eagles may spend the winter and summer on the refuge. Migrating eagles leave the refuge in spring and summer returning to lakes and streams in the northern forests.

Fall and Spring migration can bring millions of Snow Geese to the refuge. During the peak of their arrival the blue wetland is turned into a sea of white. From Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge webpage

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