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The Upper Mississippi River is one of the most important migration staging areas inNorth 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.
Steve is a Wildlife Biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and he works on the
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish 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.
November monthly meeting to follow his presentation. Online or in person.
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