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Also, see Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area Funk Bottoms Important Bird Area, and Funk Bottoms Birding Drive
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Wayne County
=Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area= =Funk Road= Wooster, Ohio 44691 Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area webpage Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area map

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Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area--Funk Rd.
Coordinates: 40.7677703, -82.1179727 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Funk Road
A section of Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area lies on either side of Funk Road. The road can sometimes be busy with traffic, so use care to pull off to the side of the road or use the wildlife area parking area to view birds along this road. From Ken Ostermiller

About Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area
This 1,498-acre wildlife area in northeastern Ohio is in portions of Wayne and Ashland counties. OH-95, running east-west, goes through the middle of the area, from Blachleyville (east), through Funk and Lake Fork (west). The area lies in the glaciated central hills region of Ohio, with flat to moderately rolling topography. The vast majority of the wildlife area consists of seasonally flooded moist soil meadows and bottomland hardwoods.

Purchase of land for Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area began in 1991. Additional land is being acquired as funds become available, and as landowners are willing to sell. The present acquisition plan is limited to property within the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) flood easement. The Mohicanville “Dry” Dam was built in 1936, primarily for flood control. All land behind the dam, below an elevation of 963 feet, is under flood easement to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This totals over 8,800 acres. The Division of Wildlife is acquiring land in this area because of the quality wetland habitat and associated wildlife species that are found here. This wildlife area is managed as a public use facility and features moist soil and shallow water habitat. The land is allowed to return to its natural wetland condition, with the approval of the appropriate agencies.

The creeks and permanent marshes on the area support mainly roughfish with small numbers of panfish.

Mallard, wood duck, muskrat, raccoon, and cottontail rabbit are the principal game and furbearer species. Deer, pheasant, woodchuck, fox squirrel, Canada goose, and other furbearers are common.

A great variety of nesting and migrant birds occur on the area. Of particular interest is the spring migration of waterfowl (23 species, including Tundra swans) and shorebirds (28 species). Several species of raptors can be found during migrations and overwintering. Bald eagles have been observed on the wildlife area.

Nesting of the state endangered sandhill crane on the purchase unit was confirmed in 1988; this was the first recorded Ohio nesting of this species in more than 60 years. Sandhill nests have been confirmed here several times since. Sandhill cranes are a wetland dependent species. From Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area webpage

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