SD-Belle+Fourche+NWR


 * =Birding in South Dakota=

Butte County
=Belle Fourche NWR= 5 miles east of Belle Fourche, on US 212 Belle Fourche NWR bird list (eBird Bar Chart) Belle Fourche NWR web site Belle Fourche NWR map media type="custom" key="26918524"

Belle Fourche NWR
Coordinates: 44.716, -103.701 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips on Birding Belle Fourche NWR
Gull and tern nesting island best viewed from the Group Camping parking lot just north of the entrance station, east side of road. Park and walk at Rocky Point Recreation Area and below Orman Dam. Birds to look for: Spotted Sandpiper, Upland Sandpiper, Great Blue Heron, Western Kingbird, Red-tailed Hawk, Short-eared and Great Horned owls, Clark’s Grebe, Western Grebe, Eared Grebe, American White Pelican, Gray Partridge, Greater White-fronted Goose, Snow Goose, nesting Ring-billed Gull, California Gull and Common Tern. Rarity in migration: Piping Plover. From [|Black Hills, Badlands, and Lakes Birding Trail by SD Game, Fish, and Parks]

About Belle Fourche NWR
The reservoir area includes 8,000 water surface acres, 6,700 land acres and 58 miles of shoreline with grassland, riparian shrub areas, deciduous trees below Orman Dam and Rocky Point Recreation Area.



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