North Dakota Bonus Images

    Bakken Shale operation

     Finally, a duck is featured in the Prairie Potholes--here a Canvasback drake...

     Town hall, Dalen, North Dakota

     Marbled Godwit standing in a wet meadow--its prime breeding habitat

    Flying Marbled Godwit with wind turbines in backgorund

     Marbled Godwit foraging an an ephemeral pond in a flooded field

     Marbled Godwit out in wet field in ND

    Marbled Godwit threesome on the move

                                              largest Purple Martin nest condo in North Dakota - "It's Huuuuge!"

     Old barn in ND

     Pronghorn buck out in stubble field

     Pronghorns out in prairie grass

     A male Red-necked Grebe checking out nest

    Female Red-necked Grebe atop her nest

    Female Red-necked Grebe exposing white egg of nest 

     Upland Sandpiper foraging in burned grassland of Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, ND

     Pair of Western Grebes out in windy lake, ND

    Western Kingbird foraging from atop of prairie-dog burrow...