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Point Pelee National Park is renowned as the best location in inland North America to observe the northward migration of songbirds.
Probably the most impressive part of Pelee's spring migration is the diversity and huge numbers of northbound warblers that descend on the area. As such it has gained the reputation as "Warbler Capital of North America." As many as 39 wa...
Point Reyes National Seashore offers some of the finest birdwatching in the United States. More than 70,000 acres of habitat harbor an incredible variety of bird life. Nearly 490 avian species have been observed in the park and on adjacent waters. Point Reyes National Seashore easily claims the prize for the greatest avian diversity in any U.S.national park. The speci...
Churchill is a town on the shore of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the World" that has helped its growing tourism industry.
Churchill is a popular location for ecotourism, as well as for Arctic research. The town also has a h...
The polar bear is the world's largest land-based predator. Seeing a Polar Bear in the wild offers a once-in-a-lifetime thrill most people will never experience due to their remote habitat. In order to see one in the wild you will need to travel to the Arctic between June and November. Polar bear sightings happen most often in countries such as Canada, Russia, Norway, ...
Polar bear jail (also known as Polar Bear Holding Facility) is a special building in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada where polar bears that are considered troublesome or dangerous are isolated before they can be relocated.
Before establishing the facility, polar bears which were considered dangerous used to be shot. The holding facility was first established in 1982 (acco...
Polar Park is a wildlife park in the municipality of Bardu in Troms county, Norway. The park opened on 18 June 1994, displaying animals in their natural habitat. With only 12 enclosures on 114 acres (46 ha), the park has the world's biggest area per animal ratio.
The park specializes in Nordic fauna, including most of the big predators of the arctic: Brown bear, lynx ...
Ponta d'Ouro is a popular destination for South African divers and surfers in southern Maputo province, Mozambique. There is a small village, but it is mostly overshadowed by the tourist camps. It is commonly referred to as 'Ponta' by visiting South Africans.
The Dolphin experience is not to be missed. Run by a team of passionate conservationists, the chance to swi...
The Poor Knights Islands are a group of islands off the east coast of the Northland Region of the North Island of New Zealand. They are located 50 kilometres (31 mi) to the northeast of Whangarei, and lie 22 kilometres (14 mi) offshore half way between Bream Head and Cape Brett. Uninhabited since the 1820s, they are a nature reserve and popular underwater diving spot....
The Port Hedland Saltworks Important Bird Area is a 103 km2 tract of originally intertidal land, now containing a saltern, lying about 20 km east of the port of Port Hedland on the coast of the Pilbara region of north-west Western Australia. The salt processing facility is operated by Dampier Salt Ltd, part of the Rio Tinto Group.
The Important Bird Area (IBA) compris...
Pounawea Estuary is a special place where you can experience virgin podocarp forest rich in birdlife (including bellbirds/korimako, kererū and fantails/pīwakawaka), meeting saltmarsh and estuary.
It is home to wading birds such as royal spoonbills/kōtuku-ngutupapa and bar-tailed godwits/kauka which return to the sandspit near the mouth of the estuary each year.
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loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) which is endangered throughout the Mediterranean as a result of its nesting sites being taken over by tourism. In Italy the beaches of Pozzolana di Ponente on Linosa and Isola dei conigli on Lampedusa are two of the last remaining sites where the turtle regularly lays its eggs, the others (larger) being in southern Calabria (clo...
Start at the Caprock Coulee Trailhead and follow the Buckhorn Trail to a prairie dog town. Be sure to plan some extra time for wildlife viewing; where there are prairie dogs, there are often lots of other animals, too!
The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of 4.9 million acres, of which 2.64 million acres is wilderness).
Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge is well known for its abundanc...
The Prickly Pear Cays, sometimes spelled Prickley Pear Cays, are a small pair of uninhabited islands about six miles from Road Bay, Anguilla, in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean. They are divided by a narrow boat channel between Prickly Pear East and Prickly Pear West. Prickly Pear Cays were classified as 'wildlands' by the "Eastern Caribbean Natural Area Manageme...