Tallahatchie National Wildlife Refuge

The old oxbows and low-lying fields along Tippo Bayou flood each winter and hold large concentrations of waterfowl, including mallards, northern shovelers, blue-winged and green-winged teal, and northern pintails. Wood ducks abound here and the unit has a very healthy deer herd. Peregrine falcon, bald eagles, merlin, least tern, barred owls, great-horned owls, loggerhead shrikes, and red-tailed hawks, great blue herons, earstern meadowlarks, northern flickers, pied-billed grebes, and loggerhead shrikes are common year-round residents. Summer visitors include indigo buntings, blue grosbeaks, dickcissels, white ibis, and prothonotary warblers. Although less common wood storks and black-bellied whistling ducks are some unique summer visitors. The refuge is complemented on the south by the 9,483-acre Malmaison Wildlife Management Area, managed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.

Tallahatchie National Wildlife Refuge is located on the north and south sides of Highway 8, nine miles west of Holcomb, MS.  Please note that gated roads are open from mid-September through May 1.