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Visitors often see the Lobstick family from the deck or from a tourist boat on the waterway. Their name comes from Lobstick Creek where they nest just outside the boundary of Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada. This family is usually one of the first to leave Texas on spring migration in March or April. The chicks (twins here) will leave their parents during the journey north or soon after reaching the summer nesting grounds in Canada.