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Swan Presentation - Tuesday, October 13th from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm at Sobieski Park Lodge (965 7th Street, Winona, MN 55987). Doors open at 6:15 pm for the pubic. Friends members who have previously sent an RSVP will have dinner and give aways at 5:30 pm.

The Upper Mississippi River is one of the most important migration staging areas in North America for the eastern population of tundra swans, a species that breeds in the arctic of Alaska and Canada, and winters in the mid-Atlantic coastal region of the United States. This presentation will provide insight into tundra swan natural history, how to differentiate tundra swans from trumpeter swans (a year-round resident of Minnesota and Wisconsin), and it will highlight how and why the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge is so important to this species during its spring and fall migrations. Join the Friends of the Refuge Headwaters for this informative presentation with Wildlife Biologist, Stephen Winter. Steve is a Wildlife Biologist for the Refuge, as well as other areas up and down the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers. He and his USFWS colleagues collaborate with several federal and state partners to plan large-scale habitat restoration and enhancement projects, and Steve serves on several regional partnership coordination, strategic planning, and science advisory teams and working groups. He acquired a love of waterfowl, other waterbirds, and wetlands as a young child and he particularly enjoys working at a refuge that annually hosts hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of migrating waterfowl each spring and fall.

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