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Registration Form
March 29, Tuesday
Your fee includes motorcoach transportation,
professional guides, blind fees, museum
Please Check One
Single Occupancy Fee $495.00
Double Occupancy Fee $410.00
Triple Occupancy Fee $380.00
Quad Occupancy Fee $375.00
Please Circle Bus Pick-up
Waterloo
Independence
Hiawatha
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Please send this registration form with your
check (payable to “Butler’s Travel Service”) to
Linn County Conservation
10260 Morris Hills Road, Toddville, IA 52341
Please either send a $100 deposit/person or
the full fee. Final payments due by Feb 29th.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Prices are Per Person
6:30am
7:30 am
11:30am
1:00pm
2:30pm
6:00pm
Pick up in Independence
Pick up in Hiawatha
Lunch Stop in Council Bluffs
Durham Museum
Load Bus to Kearney
Arrive at hotel in Kearney,
supper your own
March 30, Wednesday
5:30 am
8:30am
10:30am
2:00pm
3:30pm
5:30pm
Bus leaves for Audubon Sanctuary
Return to motel, breakfast
Museums, Lunch
Drive to Burwell
Arrive at Burwell motel
Load Bus for Supper in Burwell
March 31, Thursday
6:30am Load Bus for Outfitters
7:30am Load outfitters bus to blinds
8:30am Hot breakfast/program
10:00am Stop at motel and pack up
1:30pm Stop in Sioux City for Lunch
Surprise stop
6:30pm Return to Independence
7:30pm Return to Hiawatha
Deadline to register is Feb 29th
2016
SANDHILL CRANE
& PRAIRIE CHICKEN
BUS TOUR
“We have come here, black electrical tape
over the flashes of our cameras and binoculars
in hand, to see the sandhill cranes, one of the
world’s oldest birds and a species that makes
one of the world’s most impressive migrations.
Every year between mid-February and early
April, thousands upon thousands of sandhill
cranes, around 80% of the world’s total population, make their way to this small stretch of
the Platte River in south central Nebraska.
Historically, the Platte ‘was a mile wide and an
inch deep,’ which makes it the perfect site for
the cranes to rest and eat during their annual
migration. But a wide and shallow river isn’t
ideal for farming and development. Over 150
miles of river channel have been lost, and only
about 4.5 miles of the river lie within the protective boundaries of the sanctuary.”
from Great Migrations: Sandhill Cranes at
Rowe Sanctuary in Nebraska by Kristin Conard
CONTACT
Linn County Conservation
Ph: 319-892-6485
www.LinnCountyParks.com
CONTACT
Buchanan County Conservation
Ph: 319-334-3436
www.BuchananCountyParks.com
BURWELL, NEBRASKA
Calamus Outfitters
Calamus Outfitters is a family-owned recreation
business run by Bruce and Sue Ann Switzer. The
Switzer’s ranch is located in the sandhills of
north central Nebraska, near the Calamus
Reservoir. Audubon Nebraska recognizes this
ranch as an Important Bird Area within the
Greater Gracie Creek Landscape. With years of
experience watching, observing and learning
the mating habits of the prairie chickens, the
Switzers are well-informed about prairie
chicken lek locations. Late March and early
April are the best times to see the male
booming sites.
Sandhill Cranes
KEARNEY, NEBRASKA
Iain Nicolson Audubon Center
& The Rowe Santuary
Set along the Platte River, the Iain Nicolson
Audubon Center at the Rowe Santuary offers
guided trips to view the world’s largest
concentration of sandhill cranes. Over 500,000
sandhill cranes (along with hundreds of
thousands of ducks and geese) converge on
the Platte during March and April. This area
is recognized as a Global Important Bird Area.
People come from all over the world to witness this great migration. The 1300 -acre Rowe
Sanctuary hosts an estimated 70,000 cranes
each night during the migration as well as an
occasional group of whooping cranes.
Union Station is the home for the Durham
Museum. Beautiful architecture blends with
memories the history of the region and offers
a broad-range of traveling exhibits to science,
industry and more. A special exhibit during
our visit will be This May Hurt a Bit: Medicine
in Old Omaha.
Step back in time and visit Union Station’s
original Soda Fountain! Enjoy an old fashioned
phosphate made or hand-scooped ice cream
soda.
MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART
Housed in a 1911 Neoclassical building and
listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, the Museum of Nebraska Art permanent collection numbers nearly 6,000
works by artists of regional, national, and
international acclaim. It is the only museum
exclusively dedicated to telling the story of
Nebraska through the art of Nebraska and by
extension the story of America.
THE ARCHWAY MUSEUM
Spanning 310 feet over Interstate 80 near
Kearney, Nebraska, The Archway presents
170 years of transportation history through
detailed displays and harrowing stories you’ll
hear as you walk over one of America’s
busiest interstate highways.
Along the Way
At night, they roost along the river on
sandbars and in the water itself, up to depths
of 6 to 8 inches or so. The water acts as an
alarm, warning them if predators are on the
way.
Prairie Chicken Lek
THE DURHAM MUSEUM