Organization | Michigan Audubon Society |
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Location | Chippewa County, Michigan USA |
Coordinates | 46°46′14″N 84°57′24″W / 46.77056°N 84.95667°W |
Established | 1978 |
Website | www.wpbo.org |
The Whitefish Point Bird Observatory (WPBO) is located in Chippewa County, Michigan, USA, adjacent to the Whitefish Point Unit of the Seney National Wildlife Refuge. It operates as a non-profit, affiliate education and research facility of the Michigan Audubon Society. The Society and the WPBO together have recorded over 300 species of birds at Whitefish Point. As one of a network of bird observatories in the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network, the WPBO documents the bird population of the Great Lakes region through bird banding, data collection, and research studies.