Event Details

Cheyenne Bottoms is located on the Central Flyway, a bird migration route that connects Canada to South America.  70% of all the different shorebird species in North American have been recorded at Cheyenne Bottoms; late April is prime time to view the birds using our wetlands for rest and fuel.

Join us April 21 to see this migration in person.  We will be offering two guided birding tours around Cheyenne Bottoms.  Our van will seat 11 birdwatchers, extra vehicles can caravan behind our bird van and will stop at several locations to view wildlife.

2-3pm – We will show Flyways, a Nature episode that previously aired on PBS, in our auditorium.  This documentary follows the shorebirds that fly thousands of miles each year along flyways.  More than 200 species, such as Long-billed Curlews, Lesser Yellowlegs, Red Knots, and Hudsonian Godwits, travel from feeding grounds in the southern hemisphere to breeding grounds in the Arctic and back again, flying up to nine days non-stop without food or water.  But their populations are crashing amidst climate change and urban development.  Follow a conservation movement of bird-loving experts and citizen scientists as they mobilize to the challenge of understanding and saving shorebirds.

Many of the birds featured in the documentary could be spotted at Cheyenne Bottoms on April 21.

2-3pm – As the 53-minute documentary may be too long for young audiences, this tour will be designed for families with young children.  We will stop at our observation tower, learn to use binoculars, ID different birds, look for aquatic invertebrates, and play a migration game.

3-4pm – Those that enjoyed the Flyways documentary will go on a birding tour around Cheyenne Bottoms.

This is a free program.  No registration is required.  For questions, please call 877-243-9268 or visit wetlandscenter.fhsu.edu.