Upper Mississippi River refuges
IOWA AND ILLINOIS
42° 9'0.17"N 90°17'10.47"W
I dream of spending weeks combing every shoreline, wetland, prairie, and upland forest of the 240,000-acre Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, as well as nearby public lands. Even if you don’t have weeks, the region offers an ideal Big Day of birding.
Green Island is a vast floodplain of the Mississippi with small pools, large lakes, and dozens of productive seasonal “floodles.” Managed corn fields feed migratory
