Endangered Woodpecker Featured on Outdoor Oklahoma
The McCurtain County Wilderness Area recently turned 100 and the Wildlife Department's Outdoor Oklahoma film crew celebrated by highlighting the work our biologists are doing to help the population of red-cockaded woodpeckers that call the historic area home.
Check out the full Outdoor Oklahoma episode
Species Spotlight: Trumpeter Swan
A giant of the wetlands, the trumpeter swan is the heaviest of North American waterfowl. These birds can weigh more than 25 pounds and have wingspans that can exceed more than 6 feet.
Small numbers of trumpeter swans are seen on ponds, sloughs and small lakes in Oklahoma each winter – usually between the months of December and February. These birds appear to come from at least two different nesting areas. Most of the wintering trumpeter swans that are seen in central and eastern Oklahoma have arrived from the nesting population in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. Swans seen in western Oklahoma have likely migrated from a nesting area in South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska. Report your sightings at wildlifedepartment.com.
Learn more about this bird from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Buy or Renew Your Conservation Passport
Oklahoma’s network of Wildlife Management Areas offers plenty of wildlife watching, hiking and photography opportunities, and the Wildlife Department recently made the process of purchasing a conservation passport or hunting or fishing license to access these lands more user-friendly.
The newly launched Go Outdoors Oklahoma Online Licensing System lets you buy or renew your conservation passport or other licenses in a few simple steps. The conservation passport grants access to more than 50 Wildlife Management Areas and gives non-hunters and anglers a different way to support conservation efforts in Oklahoma. Find license requirements and closed seasons for each WMA in the Oklahoma Hunting and Fishing Guide.
Buy or renew your conservation passport at wildlifedepartment.com
Calendar of Events
Bald Eagle Watches
Statewide at State Parks and Refuges
Chicken Hawks and Hoot Owls Tour
Feb. 9, 2019
Hackberry Flat Center
Great Backyard Bird Count
Feb. 15-18, 2019
Statewide
Project Feeder Watch
Now - April 5
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