Home to tundra flora, fauna, and polar bears Churchill, Manitoba, on the shore of Hudson Bay, is a destination outdoor enthusiasts journey to for almost every season.
Birders arrive in late May and keep coming until August for the vast migration of over 270 species of birds. Here three natural biomes (Low-Arctic Tundra, Boreal Forest, and Marine) converge. Sightings of Snowy Owls and Tundra swans or nesting Harris’s Sparrows and Smith’s Longspurs make many a birder’s lifelist or just thrill the novice watcher.
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Come with me as I take you along on my journeys. I agree with Mark Twain's quote. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Contact me at words4sail@gmail.com for travel writing to spur your readers to start packing their bags.
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