Calling all birders! The third annual Camp Warbler is set for June 1-3, and registration is underway.

This two-night, all-inclusive getaway, designed for adults and featuring special presentations and guided birding activities, takes place at the Ralph A. MacMullan Conference Center near Roscommon. Camp Warbler is an all-inclusive event, providing lodging as well as five meals and motor coach transportation from Belle Isle Park in Detroit. This getaway is perfect for individuals or couples seeking to enjoy the best parts of Michigan and meet new friends.

Tickets are $450 per person. Bringing a friend? Save $20 on a guest ticket when you share a room.

Event highlights:

Participants will be treated to a variety of presentations and activities led by interpreters and staff from our state parks and the DNR Outdoor Adventure Center:

• An interpretive guided wildlife drive through the Shiawassee Wildlife Refuge, with stops along the way for additional birding. Shiawassee Wildlife Refuge is one of just three wildlife refuges in the state.
• A stop at Hartwick Pines State Park in Grayling.
• Special presentations on birding that will inspire both experienced and beginner birders alike.
• A visit to a Kirkland’s Warbler breeding site. Once living on the brink of extinction, the gray-and-yellow Kirtland’s Warbler – one of the rarest songbirds in North America – has made significant steps toward recovery, due to careful habitat management practices and creating public awareness. However, it is on the State Threatened Species list. A true habitat specialist, it breeds primarily in young jack pine forests in a few Michigan counties and in recent years nesting pairs have been recorded in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and Ontario.

Questions? Contact Melissa Guigue at 989-821-6200.