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Minnesota Birding Festivals, Field Trips & Meetings
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June 19 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip (pre) |
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- Norman County
- pre-weekend option
(leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $30 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
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June 20-21 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Clay County
(based out of Moorhead - leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $50 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
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July 3 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip (pre) |
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- Sax-Zim Bog
- pre-weekend option
(leader Craig Mandel)
- more info at MBW
- $20 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
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July 4-5 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Lake County
(based out of Silver Bay - leader Craig Mandel)
- more info at MBW
- $50 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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August 7-8-9 - Shorebird Workshop |
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- Doug Buri and Bob Janssen will lead a workshop based in Milbank, SD
but will have most field trips into Minnesota .
- The fee for this workshop is $160 which includes lunch on Saturday.
- Contact Doug Buri for registration
and additional information at
dougburi@tnics.com or check out
their web page at
www.itctel.com/buri/SHOREBIRD.
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August 21 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip (pre) |
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- Swift County
- pre-weekend option
(leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $30 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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August 22-23 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Stevens, Traverse
& Big Stone Counties
(based out of Morris - leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $45 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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August 28-29-30 -
Henderson Hummingbird Hurrah Festival |
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- Presentations about hummingbirds
and related topics by Bob Douglas, Carrol Henderson, Don Mitchell, Mark
Peterson and Ron Windingstad, Don Mitchell will also be banding
hummingbirds for several hours on both Saturday and Sunday,
- Details are posted on the festival weekend
website.
- In addition, there are several activities planned
earlier in the year (from April through August) to lead into this
festival. Those activities are listed on the
Henderson
Hummingbird Hurrah website.
- The series of events are sponsored by Henderson
Feathers and the Henderson Chamber of Commerce with cooperation from
Minnesota Audubon.
- For more information contact Dolores Hagen at
Henderson Feathers at
dhagen@closingthegap.com or 507-248-3824
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August 29 - MOU Field Trip - Itasca and/or
Koochiching County |
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- Led by Shawn Conrad. The details of this trip have not been
finalized, but you can expect some serious birding in this under-birded
part of the state.
- Contact Shawn Conrad at dingermcduff@hotmail.com.
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September 4 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip (pre) |
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- Clearwater County
- pre-weekend option
(leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $30 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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September 5-6-7 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Northwestern
Minnesota II
(based out of Roseau - leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $70 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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September 10-11-12-13
- Elderhostel Birding at Hawk Ridge in Duluth |
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- Witness the awesome
spectacle of Duluth’s raptor migration. Averaging more than 94,000
migrating raptors counted each fall, Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory is a
premier hawk observation site. September and October bring the peak
migration of Broad-winged, Sharp-shinned, and Cooper’s Hawks, Merlins,
Northern Goshawks, Bald and Golden Eagles, Saw-whet Owls, and Peregrine
Falcons. The participants will participate in the activities set
up for the Hawk Ridge Weekend (see below).
- The program is in association with
Vermilion Community College in Ely.
- For more information and to register see the
Elderhostel
web page.
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11-12-13 -
Hawk Ridge
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- Sponsored by Friends of Hawk
Ridge, Duluth
- Friday evening includes a social and refreshments,
a "Guess-the-Number-of-Hawks Contest", and a program on the
birds.
- Saturday will offer a
variety of field trips and seminars away from the Ridge, and
hawkwatching, interpretive programs, banded hawk and passerine
demonstrations, optics displays, merchandise, and refreshments at the
Hawk Ridge Main Overlook.
- Saturday evening
offers a social and refreshments, the annual member meeting, awards, an auction, and a keynote address.
- Sunday will offer a
variety of field trips and many activities at the Hawk Ridge Main
Overlook.
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activities at the Hawk Ridge main
overlook (on East Skyline Parkway) are open to the public. The other events require
registration.
- For more details
about Hawk Weekend or for online registration, visit
http://www.hawkridge.org/events/hawkweekend.html.
You can also make contact by calling 218-428-6209 or e-mail to mail@hawkridge.org..
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September 11-12
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Great Minnesota
River Birding Day |
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- Birders will be encouraged to explore
any and all good birding sites in the MN River Valley from Ft. Snelling
in the east to Big Stone Lake in the west and from Walnut Lake in
Faribault County to Inspiration Point in Otter Tail County.
This year birders will be allowed to
bird areas of the watershed that are west of Hwy 15 which runs from St.
Cloud through Hutchinson, New Ulm and Fairmont to the Iowa border on
Friday, September 11th as well as on Saturday, September 12th.
- To sign up for a team or an area, contact
event chairman Bob Williams
(612-728-2232)
- Check out
www.birdingtrail.org for more information
-or contact Mark Martell at Minnesota
Audubon
- After birding, join a rally at one of three
sites: The first will be Friday
evening from 4:30-6:30 PM at the Lac Qui Parle WMA Headquarters just NW
of Watson off of US 59/Hwy 7 in Chippewa County. There will be a light
dinner served at around 5 PM. On Saturday there will be a rally in
Mankato at Rasmussen Nature Center in Mankato from 2-4 PM and a rally at the MN
River Valley NWR Headquarters in Bloomington from 1-3 PM. There will be
refreshments at both of these rallies.
- You can also send your species list for the
day to
Bob Williams
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September 12 - MOU Board Meeting |
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- 1:00 pm in New Ulm or Mankato at a place to be determined
- Open to all Minnesota Ornithologists' Union members
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September 26 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Duluth I
- (leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $20 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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September 27 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Duluth II
- (leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $20 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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October 8-9-10-11
- Elderhostel Birding at Hawk Ridge in Duluth |
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- Witness the awesome
spectacle of Duluth’s raptor migration. Averaging more than 94,000
migrating raptors counted each fall, Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory is a
premier hawk observation site. September and October bring the peak
migration of Broad-winged, Sharp-shinned, and Cooper’s Hawks, Merlins,
Northern Goshawks, Bald and Golden Eagles, Saw-whet Owls, and Peregrine
Falcons.
- The program is in association with
Vermilion Community College in Ely.
- For more information and to register see the
Elderhostel
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October 9-10-11 - Sparrow Workshop |
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- Doug Buri and Bob Janssen will lead a workshop based in Milbank, SD
but will have most field trips into Minnesota .
- The fee for this workshop is $160 which includes lunch on Saturday.
- Contact Doug Buri for registration
and additional information at
dougburi@tnics.com or check out
their web page at
www.itctel.com/buri/SPARROW.
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October 16 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip (pre) |
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- Yellow Medicine
County
- pre-weekend option
(leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $25 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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October 17-18 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Marsh Lake - Lac
Qui Parle - Big Stone NWR
(based out of Montevideo - leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $40 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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October 17 - MOU Field Trip - Mille Lacs County |
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- Led by Al Schirmacher. Meet 7:30am and explore the SW corner
of Lake Mille Lacs for loons and other unusual waterfowl.
- Contact Al Schirmacher at
PastorAl@princetonfreechurch.net.
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October 23-24-25 - Grand Marais
Autumn Migration
Birding
Festival |
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- Hosted by the North House Folk School,
an educational nonprofit, in cooperation with the US Forest Service.
- Headquarters at Grand Marais with
morning field trips led be highly
experienced birders are at the festival’s core. Trips explore the Lake
Superior shoreline along the entire length of the Sawtooth Mountains up
to the Canadian border at Grand Portage.
- Complementing morning field trips are
afternoon workshops as well as two featured evening
programs.
- For information check the Grand Marais
Visitor Information Center
web site or
contact the
North House Folk school at 1-888-387-9762 or by
e-mail
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November 6-7-8
- Rivers & Bluffs Fall Birding Festival (Lansing, Iowa) |
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Includes
interesting educational
programs including two with live
educational birds;
boat trips on the Mississippi in
large, enclosed excursion boats to get close-up views of water birds;
silent and live auctions; and other activities to
match the magnificence of
the area and our very
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visitors see some of the 15-18,000 Tundra Swans and 250,000
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November 7-8 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- North Shore of
Lake Superior
(based out of Duluth & Grand Marais - leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $40 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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November 8 -
Project FeederWatch
starts (and runs through April 3rd, 2009) |
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- Participants count the numbers and kinds of birds
at their feeders each week and send the information to the Cornell
Lab of Ornithology.
- To learn more and to sign up, visit
www.feederwatch.org or call the Lab toll-free at (800) 843-2473.
In return for the $15 fee ($12 for Lab members) participants receive
the FeederWatcher’s Handbook, an identification poster of the
most common feeder birds in their area, a calendar, complete
instructions, and the FeederWatch annual report, Winter Bird
Highlights.
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- 6:00 pm at Wood Lake Nature Center, Richfield
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December 5 - MOU Paper Session |
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- Sponsored by the Minnesota
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- Held from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm at the Bell Museum of
Natural History on the campus of the University of Minnesota (corner of
Church St & University Ave)
- Papers presented on various
bird related topics; Displays available in the
museum halls all day
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page set up with the paper session schedule and a link to a PDF version
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http://www.moumn.org/paper.html. If you wish to pre-register,
registration forms need to be submitted by Nov 21.
- Contact
Donald Mitchell for
more information
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December 14th
through
January 5th - Christmas Bird Counts (same dates
every year) |
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Minnesota Tours / Guided Trips
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2010 |
Minnesota Birding Festivals, Field Trips & Meetings
(also see additional trip information at bottom) |
Compiled
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Project FeederWatch
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- Participants count the numbers and kinds of birds
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- To learn more and to sign up, visit
www.feederwatch.org or call the Lab toll-free at (800) 843-2473.
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the FeederWatcher’s Handbook, an identification poster of the
most common feeder birds in their area, a calendar, complete
instructions, and the FeederWatch annual report, Winter Bird
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January 9-10,
2010 - Minnesota
Birding Weekends Field Trip |
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- Duluth III
- (leader Kim Eckert)
- more info at MBW
- $35 fee - registration required
- Contact Kim Eckert if
you need additional information
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January 16, 2010 -
Golden Eagle Survey |
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- Help survey the Golden Eagles in
SE Minnesota (and NE Iowa and western Wisconsin) along the Mississippi
River.
- Join on one of the established routes
in SE MN or SW WI, or if you think you have Golden Eagles wintering in
your area, you are encouraged to do a route near you.
- If you want to participate in the
count, please contact Scott Mehus
at
651-565-4989 ext 101 or via e-mail (
Scott@nationaleaglecenter.org ) and he will get you a route
map and data sheets and all the details
- NEW this year are 3 seminars and
field trips. These will be lead by Scott Mehus and will focus on
identifying Golden Eagles. You are welcome on the field trips even if
you do not plan to take part in the count. Field trip/seminars meet at
the National Eagle Center in Wabasha MN at 1:00 pm on December 20, 2008,
January 10 and January 13, 2009. You may attend one or all.
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February 12-13-14
- Sax-Zim Winter Bird Festival |
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- Sponsored by the Meadowlands
community and headquartered out of the community of Meadowlands.
- There will be dinner events
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Field trips will
concentrate on finding birds like Sharp-tailed Grouse, Great Gray Owls,
Northern Hawks Owls, Boreal Chickadees, Black-backed & Northern
Three-toed Woodpeckers, Gray Jays, Common & Hoary Redpolls, White-winged
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Sax-Zim Bog website.
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- Great Backyard Bird Count |
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- Sponsored by the Cornell
Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society with support from
Wild Birds Unlimited
- Held right in your own back
yard (or any place you happen to be).
- Enter
your bird count checklists online at http://www.birdcount.org.
Click on the big “Enter
your Checklists” button at the top of the page.
In 2008, participants submitted more than 85,000
checklists.
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Check out the GBBC blog at
http://www.birdcount.org/blog, run by Audubon’s
Senior Scientist, Rob Fergus, and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s
Science Editor, Laura Erickson.
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February 20-21
- Eagle Spot Weekends |
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- Volunteers from the Environmental
Learning Center will be at Colville Park south of Red Wing from 1pm
to 3pm on Saturday and Sunday to answer questions about eagle
behavior, ecology and recovery
- For information about special events in Red Wing
call 800-498-2344 or visit
http://www.redwing.org
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- Eagle Spot Weekends |
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- Volunteers from the Environmental
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3pm on Saturday and Sunday to answer questions about eagle behavior,
ecology and recovery.
- For information about special events in Red Wing
call 800-498-23444 or visit
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Mar 5-6-7 - Festival of Owls |
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- Sponsored by the Houston Nature Center
in Houston, Minnesota
- This is the only full weekend, all-owl event in North
America.
- Events include many activities at the nature center
and around town and also include owling field trips.
- This is an international event. There were 900
participants in attendance last year.
- Check out the Festival of Owls
web site or the Houston Nature Center
web
site for more information.
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March 12-13-14 - Soar with the Eagle |
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- Sponsored by the National Eagle
Center at Wabasha, Minnesota
- The objective of the Soar with the Eagle weekend is
to provide an educational, experiential and entertaining program that
features The Eagles, The Mississippi River, The Migratory Flyway and The
Human Connection to Eagles.
- Contact
Mike Heim for more
information.
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March 13 - "Lansing Loop"
Tri-state Field Trip |
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- Led by Fred Lesher and joint with the Wisconsin
Society for Ornithology and the Coulee Region Audubon Society.
- Meet at 9am at the Kwik Trip at the intersection of
Highways 16/35/61 in La Crescent , MN (about 2 miles south of I-90).
- Birders will travel south along the Mississippi River
as far as Lansing, Iowa where they will lunch on their own.
- In the Afternoon birders will cross to Wisconsin and
travel north back to La Crosse.
- You can expect to see lots of waterfowl and some
raptors.
- This is approximately a 90
mile loop along and near the Mississippi River in WI,
IA, MN. Estimated travel time is 6
hours. You are free to leave the group whenever you choose.
- Contact the trip leader via e-mail at
Fred Lesher or via phone at
608-783-1149.
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24-25 - Salt
Lake Birding Festival |
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- Sponsored by the
Prairie-Woods Nature Society. The
event is open to the public.
- Headquartered in Marietta / Madison
with birding in Lac Qui Parle and Big Stone counties.
Lodging is available in Madison, Montevideo, Dawson,
Appleton or Canby. Camping is available at Prairie Marsh Farm, 1770 151st
Ave., Marietta, located 7 miles west of US 75 and 1.5 miles south of US
212 (for more info, contact Ken Larson - see below).
- Saturday breakfast at 7am at the Marietta American
Legion located one block west of Co. Rd. 7 on Hwy 40. Groups
will head out from there on field trips to Salt Lake and the
surrounding area. Lunch will be available at the legion and trips
will head out again in the afternoon.
- Saturday evening
chicken dinner at 7:30pm at the Sons of Norway Hall on Hwy 75 in
Madison, eleven miles east of Marietta. Reservations are required for
the dinner and can be made with Becky Skallerud at 320-598-5554 or beckaberk@yahoo.com. The dinner is $10.
There is a species tally after the dinner.
- For more info contact
Ken Larson - phone is
952-595-9265.
- Check out the
web page about the event.
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May 1 -
Boulder Birding Big Day |
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- Sponsored by
Boulder Lake
Management Area - free
admission
- Held at Boulder Lake
Environmental Center from 7 am to Noon
- 7328 Boulder Dam Road, Duluth,
MN
- To register or obtain more
information contact Mara at 218-721-3731 or you can email blake@mnpower.com
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May 1-2 -
Morris
Wetland Management District Birding Festival |
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- Bus tours on Saturday at Noon
and Sunday at 7 am.
- Registration starts at 10 am on Saturday morning at
the Morris Wetland Management District office located 4 miles east of Morris,
MN on Co Rd #10
(43875 230th Street).
- Registration is $25. Call 800-248-5868 or e-mail
kdliving@yahoo.com to reserve your space.
- A
guided coach bus tour on Saturday will begin at 11:00AM and return at
4:00PM. A
catered dinner and a
presentation will follow at the local Senior Center.
Guides are
Bob Janssen,
Jerry Bonkoski, and Doug Buri. The tour bus will leave on Sunday
at 7:00AM and return at noon.
- Hosted by Friends of the Morris
WMD and Friends of Prairie.
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May 1-2 - Duluth's Down by the Water Spring Bird
Festival |
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- Co-sponsors are Duluth Audubon Society and
the Lake Superior Zoo
- Speakers, field trips & kids' activities
- Distribution of new Duluth-Superior Area
birding map
- For more information contact the zoo at
218-723-3854 or edu@iszoo.org or
see the Duluth Audubon web site
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May 7-8-9 -
Mississippi Flyway Birding
Festival |
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- Headquartered out of LaCrosse/Onalaska,
Wisconsin
- Birding events in both Wisconsin and
Minnesota
- For more information or to register, see
the web site
or call Bonnie Koop at 608-784-2292 or Gretchen Skoloda at 608-781-7502
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May 8 -
Saint John’s Arboretum
Spring Birding Day |
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- Spend a morning
hiking through the woods on the grounds of the Saint John's
Arboretum with birders during peak migration.
Groups are led by experienced birders
and people who know the area.
- Meet at the
Pendulum in the New Science Center at 5:00am to
1:00pm or at 8:00am to 1:00pm. Early risers will be stunned by the abundance
of birds active early in the day.
- Coffee and rolls
will be served at 8:00am with lunch at 12:30pm. Cost is $12 for
Arboretum members; $16 for nonmembers. Preregistration required
via phone 320-363-3163 or
e-mail.
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A list of birds
seen at Saint John’s in its 150 year history are posted
here.
- For more information check out the
web site or contact Thomas
Kroll.
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May 8 -
North
American Migration Count Day |
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- Count categories: Stationary,
Feeder, Regular, Night
- Minnesota data compiled by Dave
Sovereign
- Address is: 6479 Upper 55th,
Oakdale, MN 55128
- Phone # is: 651-777-0379
- Forms must be submitted by June
15th
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May
8 -
Rice Lake NWR celebration of International Migratory Bird Day |
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- Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day
at Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge Headquarters
and Visitor Center, located five miles south of McGregor on Highway 65,
will be open from 7 am to 1 pm and 6 pm to 7 pm
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May 8-9 - Great River Birding & Nature Festival |
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- Birding By
Mini-Rail Car through the Chippewa Bottoms and the Birding by Boat
through the Mississippi Backwaters will be the only events.
- The Rail Car event will be reserved
through Donna Krebsbach at Wings Over Alma and will run both Saturday
and Sunday May 10 & 11 from 7am-12 pm.
- The Birding the Backwaters with River
Pilot Loren Waalkens will be held the May 9, 10, and 11 at 3 times each
morning.
- For more information check out the
web site
at
www.mississippi-river.org/birding
or
call 877-525-3248
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May
13-14-15-16 -
Detroit Lakes
Festival
of Birds |
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- Sponsored by
Detroit Lakes Regional Chamber of
Commerce
- Featured speaker is
Richard Crossley, photographer and
author of 'The Shorebird Guide'.
Includes workshops on a variety of
topics and fieldtrips to several area birding locations such as Agassiz
and Tamarac NWR, Rothsay and Bluestem Prairies.
- This year shorebirds will be
highlighted and there will be some new trips added to increase
opportunities to see shorebirds using some newly established prairie
wetlands.
- For additional information contact the Detroit Lakes Regional
Chamber of commerce at 1-800-542-3992 ext 730 or contact Kelly
Blackledge via email. Online registration
and other information is available at
www.visitdetroitlakes.com
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May 14-15-16 -
Ramsey County Bird Festival |
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Activities
include a day full of displays, demos and hikes at Snail Lake Regional
Park, many birding tours to little-known spots within the county, a
birding adventure by canoe and a tour of the rarely open Arden Hills
Army Training Site (formerly known as the Twin Cities Arsenal).
- Contact John Moriarty, Ramsey County
Parks, for more information via
e-mail or at
651-748-2500
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Additional
details and registration information are available on the
festival website.
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May 15-16 -
Austin Oak/Savanna Birding Festival |
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- Sponsored by Friends of the J.C. Hormel
Nature Center and the Austin Audubon Society
- The event will be held at the Hormel Nature
Center in Austin, MN.
- Guided birding tours will be offered both
Saturday and Sunday.
- For more information, contact the Austin
Convention and Visitor's Bureau at 507-437-4563 or email
twdorsey@charter.net or
jchnatur@smig.net or visit
the Austin City website
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May 16
- Hawk Ridge St Louis
County Big Day |
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- Sponsored by
Friends of Hawk
Ridge
- More
information and forms on their
web page
- Proceeds to support Hawk Ridge
Nature Reserve
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June
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Boreal
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- Headquarters at the
North House Folk School
in Grand Marais on the
North Shore of Lake Superior
- More than a dozen different courses/workshops are
at the heart of the festival.
Boreal Birding with Dedrick Benz. North Shore Birding with Jerry
Bonkoski/John Hockema. North Shore Geology with John Green. Spring
Wildflowers with Jim Gilbert. Owl In A Night's Work with Bill Lane.
And more. Courses range from 1 to 3 days in length.
- Multiple featured evening programs
offer opportunities to share discoveries and eat great desserts -
including "The Remarkable Gray
Jay", "Looking Through the Lens at the Boreal Forest" and "Into The
Night: Shining the Light on Boreal Owls of Minnesota"
- The Superior National Forest has a
total of 155 species of birds that breed within its boundaries, more
species than in any other national forest.
- For registration and detail event
schedule and information check the
North House Folk School
web site
or contact them by e-mail or via phone
at 1-888-387-9762
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June 4-5
- Audubon Center Birding Festival |
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Enjoy a variety
and abundance of breeding birds in a ecological transition area.
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Interesting and
skilled leaders.
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Includes bird
banding and resident birds of prey.
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Audubon Center is located near
Sandstone, MN in northern Pine County
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more information see
http://www.audubon-center.com
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