Camera
Enjoy our live wildlife cameras streaming in Kenue Park in Okoboji. The camera features the Okoboji Osprey family on its nest April-September and the wetland October-March.
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Camera quality may change in different seasons and weather conditions.
Okoboji Osprey
Like a number of Iowa species, including whitetail deer, turkey and Canada geese, osprey were extirpated --- extinct from a certain area --- from the state from the time the settlers arrived through the early 2000s.
With help from local conservationists, businesses, non-profits and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the Dickinson County Conservation Board released juvenile ospreys from a specially-made hacking tower in Kenue Park for five years.
Osprey began returning to the nesting platform in the park in 2010.
The Dickinson County Conservation Board then set up a nest camera to view the osprey family from nest-making to egg-laying to fledging.