Features
The Prairie Is Bursting With Flowers!
Enjoy the bursting blooms of prairie wildflowers! Wild Lupine is in full bloom on prairie hillsides. Celebrate pollinators this June!
Pollinators!
Birding Is For Everyone!
Splashes of color from yellow-rumped warblers, bluebirds, orioles and tundra swans fill the skies! Come out and enjoy your refuge!
Recent Bird Sightings
Field Notes
Showcasing the activities and accomplishments of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Field Notes
Waterfowl Migration Watch
Each week during the fall, biologists fly over the Upper Mississippi River and Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuges to estimate bird use.
Waterfowl migration counts
About the NWRS
The National Wildlife Refuge System, within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, manages a national network of lands and waters set aside to conserve America’s fish, wildlife, and plants.
Learn more about the NWRS
American White Pelican
Many pelicans feed together, cooperatively concentrating fish and simultaneously dipping their heads to catch fish.