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Best Rated Bird Watching Spots
Below you'll find a listing of bird watching spots in North America listed by the average of the ratings they receive by users.
We hope that you'll contact us if you know of a fantastic birdwatching spot we've missed that should be added to this list.
Each of the listings below contains a short description of the spot and will have a listing of reviews left by other birdwatching folk who have actually visited the locale.
We hope that you will leave reviews for any of the listed spots you've been to, along with any insider advice or tips to help enhance the visits of others, and make this the most complete birding spot list on the web.
Birding Spots by State | Birding Spots by Consumer Ratings
5 stars 
Antelope Island State Park, Utah
Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Dauphin Island, Alabama
Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada
George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary, British Columbia
Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area, Indiana
Long Point Provincial Park, Ontario
Patagonia, Arizona
Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina
Point Pelee, Ontario
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Utah
Whitefish Point, Michigan
4.5 stars 
4 stars
Brazos Bend State Park, Texas
Cave Creek Canyon, Arizona
Jordanelle State Park, Utah
Peveto Woods Bird & Butterfly Sanctuary, Louisiana
White Clay Creek State Park, Delaware
3 stars
2 stars
Not yet rated
Acadia National Park, MaineAgassiz National Wildlife Refuge, Minnesota
Alakai Wilderness Preserve, Hawaii
Alaskan Islands, Alaska
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
Banff National Park, Alberta
Baxter State Park, Maine
Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Utah
Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park, Texas
Black Mesa Nature Preserve, Oklahoma
Block Island National Wildlife Refuge, Rhode Island
Bolivar Flats, Texas
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Camas National Wildlife Refuge, Idaho
Cape May, New Jersey
Central Park, New York
Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge. Illinois
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park, Maryland
Cheyenne Bottoms, Kansas
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona
Churchill, Manitoba
Cibola National Forest, New Mexico
Cimarron National Grassland, Kansas
Clifford E. Lee Nature Sanctuary, Alberta
Colorado National Monument, Colorado
Cone Marsh Wildlife Area, Iowa
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida
Crane Creek State Park, Ohio
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Crex Meadows Wildlife Area, Wisconsin
Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Vermont
Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, Idaho
Denali National Park, Alaska
Devil's Lake State Park, Wisconsin
Dinosaur National Monument, Utah
Drumheller, Alberta
Dry Tortugas, Florida
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, New Jersey
Elk Island National Park, Alberta
Everglades National Park, Florida
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge, Arkansas
Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Utah
Florida Keys, Florida
Gila National Forest, New Mexico
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, West Virginia
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland
Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi
Haleakala National Park, Hawaii
Hammonasset Beach State Park, Connecticut
High Island, Texas
Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin
Horseshoe Lake Conservation Area, Illinois
Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina
Illinois Beach State Park, Illinois
Indiana Dunes State Park, Indiana
J. N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
Jasper National Park, Alberta
Jekyll Island, Georgia
John James Audubon State Park, Kentucky
Joshua Tree National Park, California
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Georgia
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, California
Lake Chicot State Park, Arkansas
Lake Red Rock, Iowa
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, Kentucky
Leslie Street Spit, Ontario
Lighthouse Point Park, Connecticut
Madera Canyon, Arizona
Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, Ohio
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
Monterey Bay, California
Mount Revelstoke National Park, British Columbia
Newport Bay, California
Niagara Falls State Park, New York
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Odiorne Point State Park, New Hampshire
Olympic National Park, Washington
Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Utah
Outer Banks, North Carolina
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Massachusetts
Pelican Lake, Saskatchewan
Point Reyes, California
Presque Isle State Park, Pennsylvania
Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan
Prince Edward County, Ontario
Ramsey Canyon, Arizona
Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba
Rio Grande Nature Center, New Mexico
Rockport, Texas
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana
Salton Sea, California
San Pedro River, Arizona
Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge, South Dakota
Sandia-Manzano Mountains, New Mexico
Sanibel Island, Florida
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas
Shawnee National Forest, Illinois
Sherburne Wildlife Management Area, Louisiana
Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Missouri
St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Florida
Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, Tennessee
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota
Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge, California
Westport, Washington
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge, Alabama
Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland
Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta
