Klamath Basin Waterfowl

A high desert basin near the Oregon line where the Pacific Flyway narrows. In late fall and early spring the marshes of Lower Klamath and Tule Lake hold the largest concentration of waterfowl in the West. Pintails, snow geese, tundra swans, a quarter-million birds and more at the peak weeks. Theodore Roosevelt set the first refuge here aside in 1908; it was the first waterfowl refuge in the country. Bear Valley, just over the line, holds the largest wintering bald eagle roost in the lower forty-eight. The auto-tour roads run flat along the dikes. Most people leave the windows down.

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