Registration & Schedule

 Special thanks to the Montevideo Area Convention & Visitors Bureau for funding the coach buses. Please email rager001@umn.edu if you need any special accommodations for this event.  We will do our best to make your Salt Lake Birding Weekend a memorable experience!

 Volunteers will staff registration area at Lac qui Parle state park and can share the local birding hot spots for people to explore on their own.

To Register now online click here:  SALT LAKE REGISTRATION

To register, you will need to have a Minnesota Master Naturalist account.  If you do not have one, please create one.  It will be a visitor account.

Choose the: ADV Salt Lake Birding Weekend 

Scroll down on the page and you will see a button that says "TAKE THIS COURSE"  click on that button.

You will now be taken to the payment page where you will also have to create an account.  This is the payment portion and it is seperate from the MNat website, for your credit card and data privacy safety.  Please follow the prompts on the screen.  

When you choose Salt Lake Birding Weekend, then choose "continue" at the bottom and then you can choose the meals that you wish to purchase.

Follow to the end and you are all set!  

Friday, May 1

 5:00 pm Registration- LqP State Park/WMA   Tacos available- for those who chose this option in registration.   Pick up info, hospitality bags, people are welcome to hang out at the visitor's center.

6:00  Birding for Beginners- LqP State Park,  

8:00 pm LqP building closes

Saturday, May 2

6:30 am   Coffee Doughnuts- LqP State Park/WMA

7:00 am  Load Buses

7:15 am Buses Leave for birding locations

7:30-12:30  Birding locations on buses

Salt Lake, Marsh Lake Dam, Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge, Other Wildlife Areas

12:30 Lunch Marietta Legion, all bus participants will be taken here for lunch- payment in registration $10 (BBQ, Chips, beans, bar, beverage-Vegetarian option available with notice)

2:15 Car Caravans leave from LqP for other local sites,

5:00 pm LqP Building closes

6:00 Supper and bird tally at Montevideo Legion, Meatball supper-payment in registration $20 (meatballs, potato, vegetable, bread, dessert, beverage-Vegetarian option available with notice) 

6:45 Speaker:

Sunday, May 3

7:00 LqP State Park Visitor Center open for info and bird info

Possible car caravan leave from LqP

Visit local attractions

3:00 Final Tally of species due to LqP