 Mayapple at Indiana Dunes, photo contributed by Laura Cripe We're celebrating Indiana Dunes today and later in the week in the run-up to International Day for Biological Diversity, which takes place this Friday, May 22. As we mentioned in our post on Arctic Bearberry, Indiana Dunes ranks fourth among national parks in terms of biological diversity. Dunes, oak savannas, swamps, bogs, marshes, prairies, rivers and forests are all found here. Brad Bumgardner, Executive Director of Indiana Audubon Society, joined us from the Dunes to highlight the annual effort to count up to 250,000 birds from an observation tower at Indiana Dunes State Park. Today would have been the final day of the annual Indiana Dunes Birding Festival, one of the premier birding festivals in the eastern United States.
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