The Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary is situated within

Lyndale Park Lyndale Park is a Minneapolis city park on the northeast side of Lake Harriet. It is next to Lakewood Cemetery, southeast of Bde Maka Ska. It is part of an enormous greenspace circling through Minneapolis called the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway, an ...

, a

Minneapolis Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the state's List of cities in Minnesota, most populous city. Locat ...

city park on the northeast side of

Lake Harriet Lake Harriet may refer to: *Lake Harriet (Minnesota) Lake Harriet is a lake in southwest Minneapolis, south of Bde Maka Ska and north of Minnehaha Creek. The lake is surrounded by parkland as part of Minneapolis’ Grand Rounds National Scenic B ...

and part of Minneapolis’ Chain of Lakes Regional Park. The main entrance to the sanctuary is in the Lyndale Park Gardens parking lot. Trailheads are accessible through the back of the Peace Garden, and from the parking lot northeast of the Lake Harriet bandshell. Named after

Thomas Sadler Roberts Thomas Sadler Roberts (February 16, 1858 – April 19, 1946) was an American physician known for his work in ornithology, bird conservation and for his book ''The Birds of Minnesota'' (1932), a comprehensive account on the birds of the Minnesota ...

, a retired doctor who had become a professor of ornithology at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

and director of the University’s

Museum of Natural History A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more ...

, the sanctuary was officially designated in 1936 by the

Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is an independent park district that owns, maintains, and programs activities in public parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It has 500 full-time and 1,300 part-time employees and an ...

(MPRB), at the request of the Minnesota Audubon Society. Primarily a sanctuary for migratory songbirds in the spring, the sanctuary comprises . It has been designated an

Important Bird Area An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations. IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...

by the

National Audubon Society The National Audubon Society (Audubon; ) is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitats. Located in the United States and incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such orga ...

References

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External links

Lyndale Park Gardens

Friends of Roberts Bird Sanctuary

''Thomas Sadler Roberts Bird Sanctuary Tree Ecosystem Analysis''
Parks in Minneapolis