Which birding places in the SockMonkey.com Field Guide are Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance?
14 of them, according to the Ramsar Sites Information Service: Celestún, Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Doñana, Everglades National Park, Isla Holbox, Little Cayman, Mykines, Mývatn, Okefenokee Swamp, Ria Formosa, the Iberá Wetlands, the Pantanal, the Wadden Sea, and Tsurui and Kushiro. Each of those places' cards gives the site's Ramsar number and designation date. Some hold more than one site: Christmas Island has two, Hosnie's Spring (no. 512, designated 1990) and The Dales (no. 1225, 2002). Parks Canada says the whooping crane nesting area in Wood Buffalo National Park and the Peace-Athabasca Delta are Ramsar sites too (read 28 October 2026).
Which birding places in the SockMonkey.com Field Guide have months named by an official or specialist source?
18 of them: Bempton Cliffs, from the RSPB (Bempton Cliffs reserve); Bosque del Apache, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (wildlife watching); Churchill, from Travel Manitoba (Churchill); Doñana, from MITECO (Doñana National Park, recommendations); Everglades National Park, from the National Park Service (Everglades basic information); Hawk Mountain, from Hawk Mountain Sanctuary (Autumn Hawk Migration); High Island, from Birds Houston (High Island visitor information); Little Cayman, from the National Trust for the Cayman Islands (Booby Pond Nature Reserve management plan 2012-2015); Mykines, from Visit Vágar (Puffins and Birdwatching); Mývatn, from Sigurgeir's Bird Museum; Okefenokee Swamp, from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Okefenokee bird list); Ottenby, from the Kalmar County Administrative Board (Ottenby folder, 2022); the Dry Tortugas, from the National Park Service (Dry Tortugas birds page); the Lower Rio Grande Valley, from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (Estero Llano Grande State Park); the Pantanal, from the Ramsar Sites Information Service (information sheet, 2002); the Platte River, from the National Audubon Society (Rowe Sanctuary, Crane Season); the Wadden Sea, from Nationalpark Vadehavet (Trækfugle i Vadehavet); and Tsurui and Kushiro, from the Wild Bird Society of Japan (Tsurui-Ito Tancho Sanctuary). For the other places, the sources we read give no months, so their rows in the month table are left empty. A month the source names only in part is left unmarked: the National Park Service gives sooty terns nesting at the Dry Tortugas from late January through early July, and the table marks February to June.
When are the puffins ashore on Mykines in the Faroe Islands?
Visit Vágar, the visitor site for Vágar and Mykines, says the first puffins reach the Faroe Islands at the end of April or the beginning of May, come ashore on Mykines in full numbers around mid-June, and that most are back at sea by the end of August. Its guidelines ask visitors to keep to the path and stay at least 2 metres from the puffins (read 25 October 2026).
When do sooty terns nest at Dry Tortugas National Park?
The National Park Service says sooty terns nest along the beaches of Bush Key, beside Garden Key, from late January through early July, and that birders with binoculars or spotting scopes can watch the colony from Fort Jefferson on Garden Key. Its operating-hours page says Bush Key is closed during the nesting season and is usually open from mid-October to mid-January (both read 28 October 2026).
Where do whooping cranes nest in Wood Buffalo National Park?
Parks Canada says Wood Buffalo National Park, on the Alberta-Northwest Territories border, protects the nesting area of the last natural wild migratory flock of whooping cranes: a maze of shallow wetlands that is itself a Ramsar site. It put the flock at an estimated 505 birds in 2018, and says the cranes fly about 4,000 km each way to winter at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas (read 28 October 2026).
What is the sort sol, or black sun, in the Danish Wadden Sea?
Denmark's Wadden Sea National Park describes the sort sol as the evening flight of huge flocks of starlings over the marshes, seen from the start of March to mid-April and from mid-August through October, usually about an hour before sunset and lasting 30 to 45 minutes. It names the Tøndermarsken, the northern part of the Ballum marsh and several places around Ribe as places to see it (read 28 October 2026).
How many places are on the Birding places page?
The Birding places page lists 34 places in the SockMonkey.com library. The newest source read behind it is dated 29 October 2026.
Where do the facts on the Birding places page come from?
Each fact on the Birding places page comes from an official or specialist body named beside it, such as a park agency or a refuge office, with the date SockMonkey.com read that source.
Does the Birding places page rank places?
No. The Birding places page lists its places alphabetically, and the order says nothing about quality.
What do the month marks on the Birding places page mean?
A marked month is a month the named source gives for that place. The marks on the Birding places page are not a forecast of what a visitor will see.
What does a place need to appear on the Birding places page?
A place appears on the Birding places page when SockMonkey.com holds at least 3 sourced facts for it, each with a source name and a read date.
What does the Birding places page leave out?
The Birding places page leaves out rankings, sighting predictions, gear advice and watching technique. The section named "What this page does not do" lists them.
