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  Eagle Day Festival   

Eagle Day Festival

  • Location: ISM Dickson Mounds Museum, Lewistown
  • Date: Saturday, February 07, 2015, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Family-friendly Eagle Day events will be held at a variety of venues all day in Havana, Lewistown, the Emiquon Preserve, and Dickson Mounds Museum on Saturday, February 7, 2015. Admission is free at all of the events.

At Dickson Mounds museum from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. activities will be available for kids in the museum’s 2nd floor Activity Room. Make a falcon mask, Eagle hat, or an Eagle finger puppet. One may also explore exhibits created by the Forbes, Illinois River, and Therkildsen Field Stations as well as the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Aquatic Invasive Species Team and learn about identification and biological fun facts about eagles. See mussels, fish specimens, and other animal mounts. Also view the monstrous IDNR Asian carp mount and see what inhabits our world through a microscope. At 9:30 a.m., Dickson Mounds will present the Wildlife Art and Poetry Awards ceremony. Winners of this year’s competition will be honored during this ceremony.

World Bird Sanctuary of Missouri will present “Raptor Awareness”, a one-hour program with live birds of prey, at 11:00 a.m. and a second show at 1:00 p.m. Admission is free, but tickets must be picked up in the Museum's Activity Room for each show as seating is limited to 150.

The Fulton and Mason County Arts Councils will sell food for lunch, the proceeds of which will fund their respective programs.

The Nature Conservancy's Emiquon Preserve Visitor Use Observatories will be open for hiking, snow shoeing and cross country skiing (conditions permitting) and will have available spotting scopes for eagle and bird watching, hot cocoa, a warming station and visitor information from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Activities and parking will be at the Lakeside Observatory located directly off State Route 78/97. For additional information call 309-547-2730.

Chautauqua Wildlife Refuge will open the auto tour around the South Pool from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. for a view of winter wildlife. At the conclusion of the tour, stop at the Headquarters building for refreshments and meet Refuge staff. For additional information call 309-535-2290.

Be sure to also visit the new Lewistown Visitor Center on the 7th. From 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Wildlife Prairie Park’s Birds of Prey “Up Close” will provide visitors an opportunity to see a variety of birds such as hawks, eagles, and owls. For additional information call 309-547-4300.

At the Havana Nature Center visitors will also have a great opportunity to see eagles along the river and there will be activities for kids between 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. And don’t forget the Eagle Plunge at the Illinois River at 1:00 p.m. Proceeds will be used to support Nature Programs at Havana Nature Center. Please call the Havana Park Office (309-543-6240) or the Nature Center (309-543-1031) for complete details.

This event, which is co-sponsored by Dickson Mounds, Emiquon Audubon Society, Fulton and Mason County Arts Councils, Havana and Lewistown Chambers, Havana Public Library District and Nature Center, Illinois Natural History Survey, The Nature Conservancy, US Fish & Wildlife Service and UIS Therkildsen Field Station.

The Illinois State Museum - Dickson Mounds is located between Lewistown and Havana off Illinois Routes 78 and 97. The museum is open free to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day. Tours and special programs are available for groups with reservations. For more information call 309.547.3721 or TTY 217.782.9175 or visit the museum's web site at www.ExperienceDicksonMounds.com.

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