The Bobolink is one of the world’s long-distance migrants, traveling some 12,500 miles from it’s wintering grounds in southern South America to the northern United States and Southern Canada. The Bobolink is a bird of grasslands. Their original breeding grounds were the prairies of the midwestern United States and southern Canada, but they now breed in eastern hayfields and meadows. Their scientific name means ‘rice eating’, which refers to their preferred appetite for rice and other grains that sustain them on their long migration. These Bobolinks were foraging in a grassy area around a pond that is slowly reforesting itself at Governor’s Bridge Natural Area.