You’re going to want to visit Wind Cave Canyon for one of the best birding areas in the park. The limestone walls of the canyon are fantastic nesting grounds for cliff swallows and great horned owls. Here the others you can expect at Wind Cave National Park:
- Red-headed and Lewis's woodpeckers
- Nuthatch
- Wild turkey
- Ring-necked pheasant
- Blue jay
- Horned lark
- American robin
- Mountain bluebird
- Western meadowlark
- Red-winged blackbird
- American goldfinch
- Black-capped chickadee