The Raccoon River Watershed Association invites birders and potential birders to a guided birding expedition Saturday, April 27, at Dunbar Slough, Participants are encouraged to carpool from the park south of Casey’s General Store in Scranton, or connect with the group 15-20 minutes later at the bridge on 270th St,(100 yards east of A Ave).
Dunbar Slough is a 2,134-acre State Wildlife Management area located in western Greene County southwest of Scranton and east of the border between Greene and Carroll counties.
Dunbar Slough is considered an important bird area by the national Audubon Society. Eighty percent of the 285 bird species recorded in Greene County have been detected there.
This FREE event is sponsored by RRWA with board members Kristen Bieret, Carroll County Conservation, environmental ed coordinator; Tanner Scheuermann, Greene County Conservation director, and Bob Rye, volunteer and citizen science committee chair; partnered with Matt Wetrich, nature photographer, naturalist; Colleen Radebaugh, amateur bird watcher, RRWA citizen science & Tipton Prairie committee member; and the lowa Ornithological Union (IOU).
