[mou] MRVAC meeting this Thursday

[Steve Weston]

Thursday March 23, 2006 meeting of the Minnesota River Valley Audubon
Chapter


Marie Digatono, an eco-tour leader and former parrot breeder, will present a 
program on the neo-tropical birds of Northeast Mexico including three 
critically endangered amazon parrot species as well as Green parakeets. She 
will discuss efforts to combat the serious threats that they face in the 
wild and the significance of eco-tourism in conservation. She will also talk 
about her twenty-five years experience of keeping Yellow-headed Amazons, and 
why she no longer breeds or promotes keeping large parrots as pets in 
captivity.

The meeting is free and open to the public.  We encourage you to come for 
the social period with coffee and cookies beginning at 7:00 p.m., followed 
by a brief business meeting and the featured speaker at 7:30 p.m. The 
meeting concludes at 9:00 p.m.

DIRECTIONS: The Visitor Center is located at 3815 American Blvd. East in 
Bloomington, across from the Airport Hilton Hotel. From I-494, exit on 34th 
Ave. and drive south. Turn left on American Blvd. East and drive 1/4 mile to 
the entrance on the right. Or just follow the signs from I-494.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: The Visitor Center is about a 12-minute walk from the 
Bloomington Central light rail stop.

Steve Weston on Quiggley Lake in Eagan, MN
sweston2@comcast.net