Pioneers Park Nature Center

The Pioneers Park Nature Center Most every school child has a story about the nature center. In the 1930’s, three small ponds were dug on the land that would become Lincoln’s own Nature Center with the hope they would be a waterfowl refuge. This 40 acre wildlife sanctuary, located within Lincoln’s Pioneers Park, was originally…

Baltimore Oriole

The male sings a loud flute like whistle that often gives away the bird’s location before any sighting can be made. The Baltimore Oriole received its name from the fact that the male’s colors resemble those on the coat-of-arms of Lord Baltimore, an important figure in Maryland’s history. The Major League Baseball team, Baltimore Orioles,…

Nebraska

Nebraska! One Of The Last Great Prairies Encounter some of the largest remaining tracts of prairie in North America and see  • The largest concentration of Greater Prairie-Chickens in the Central Great Plains • A large numbers of Great Plains Sharp-tailed Grouse & Long-billed Curlew • Ferruginous Hawks, prairie-dogs, Burrowing Owls, , pronghorn antelope, bighorn…