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Freddie Black Choctaw Island Wildlife Management Area
Located along the Mississippi Flyway, Freddie Black Choctaw Island WMA provides stopover habitat for migrating birds such as shorebirds and Neotropical migrant songbirds. The area hosts several breeding species of state conservation interest including; Acadian Flycatcher, Wood Thrush, Prothonotary Warbler, Cerulean Warbler, Painted Bunting, and Baltimore Oriole. Least Terns have nested on or near Choctaw Bar Island for several years.
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Craighead Forest Park
Located in Jonesboro, Craighead Forest Park is a city-owned park that is situated in the scenic beauty of Crowley's Ridge. Located along the Mississippi Flyway, Craighead Forest Park is a magnet for spring and fall migrants. In a single morning 19 species of wood-warblers among hundreds of individuals were recorded including Blackburnian, Cape May, Golden-winged, Magnolia, and Bay-breasted.
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Lake Chicot and Lake Chicot State Park
Located in the Mississippi Flyway, Lake Chicot State Park offers some of the best year-round birding opportunities in Arkansas. Lake Chicot is the largest natural oxbow lake in the United States and has become a peaceful setting for fishing, boating, and bird watching. Bald Eagle, Pied-billed Grebe, Orchard Oriole, Blue-winged Teal, Anhinga, Bonaparte’s Gull, and Hooded Merganser are just a few of the species that can be seen here.
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Big Lake
This refuge was once a part of the Mississippi River, the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 created the characteristics that have become a hunter/fisherman/birdwatching paradise. Surveys have counted over 10,000 wintering waterfowl including Mallards, Wood Ducks, American Black Duck, Common Merganser and Hooded Merganser to name a few.
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Roth Prairie Natural Area
Roth Prairie Natural Area represents one of the last few fragments of tallgrass prairie left in the Grand Prairie of eastern Arkansas (Mississippi Alluvial Plain). Short-eared Owls and other grassland birds can be found in this area during winter.
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Stuttgart Municipal Airport
Located in the Grand Prairie region of eastern Arkansas, this site protects remnant prairie-shub habitat. During mid winter Eastern Meadowlarks, Short-eared Owls, Lapland and Smith’s Longspurs, Sedge Wrens, and Northern Harriers can be seen here.
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Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge
Wapanocca NWR located 20 miles northwest of Memphis, Tennessee, in Crittenden County, Arkansas was established in 1961 to provided habitat for migrating and wintering waterfowl. The refuge is located four miles west of the Mississippi River and protected from the river by the river levee.
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