International Migratory Bird Day Festival 2008

Keweenaw's IMBD in Copper Harbor, Michigan

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Dark-eyed Junco
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Leucistic junco

 
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Not only a beautiful place, but full of great birding and lots to do!

 Not only is the Keweenaw Peninsula an extremely active migratory fly-way, but it offers a wide variety of bird habitats. In Copper Harbor, you can view numerous water birds on Lake Superior as well as Lake Fanny Hooe and Lake Manganese. Brockway Mountain in known as "Hawk Highway" because of the huge number of migrating raptors observed from it. There is old growth pine forest at the Estivant Pines Nature Sanctuary, home to many nesting warblers and other songbirds and several hiking trails which offer up excellent birding opportunities. The burn area on Keweenaw point is bound to attract some interesting birds this year.

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This will be our 3rd Annual IMBD Festival - The first weekend in May has been working great for our festival and we are doing it the same weekend this year. It is early enough that the raptors are still heavy and late enough for the warblers and other songbirds to begin showing up.

We're excited to bring more to the table this year - We will have two Birds of Prey presentations by the Northwoods Wildlife Center on Saturday. The program is all about raptors and will feature 2 of their resident birds! Besides the Birds of Prey Prgram, you''ll have the opportunity to attend 3 other presentations throughout the weekend. Some things will stay the same - why change a good thing right? The birdhouse/feeder building has been well received and we plan to have Nathan running that show again this year. Please visit the Schedule for details.


Visit these links for more area, birding, IMBD and other information!

The Official Website of Copper Harbor - Everything you want to know and then some

The Official Website of Copper Harbor - Birding Info - Goes directly to the birding page

The Michigan Audubon Society

IMBD Headquarters

Supporters:
Thanks to the following bird lovin' volunteers for their work putting the IMBD's together:

Ken Stigers - The Pines Resort
Karen Karl - The Brockway Inn & Boreal Beans Coffeehouse
Laurel Rooks - The Laughing Loon - Gifts of the North
Nathan & Hannah Miller

Thanks to the following supporters who have donated money, goods or services:

Mariner North Gas-Lite General Store Country Village Shops
Laughing Loon Gifts Swede's Gifts The Pines Resort
Brockway Inn & Boreal Beans Pasty.Net & Pasty Central Keweenaw Brewing Co.
Reinhart Food Service The Hut Restaurant Betterly Painting
Hancock Bottling

Good Birding!

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