MCSI Season Kick-off Event 2026

Join us Tuesday, May 12 at the Assiniboine Park Zoo to kick off the 2026 Chimney Swift season with food, door prizes, and great company! We are so excited to celebrate the hard work and dedication of our volunteers over the last 20 monitoring seasons. None of what we do would be posssible without our volunteers!

This event will be taking place in the multi-purpose room of the Leatherdale International Polar Bear Conservation Centre in the Assiniboine Park Zoo (same location as last year). There will be volunteers at the Special Events Entrance of the Assiniboine Park Zoo (54 Zoo Dr) to let participants in between 6:45 pm - 7:00pm. Please note that the Special Events Entrance is not the same as the Main Zoo Entrance off Roblin Blvd. Please see the map below to find the Special Events Entrance. As this is an after-hours event, RSVP’s are required.

At 7 pm, We’ll start the evening off with a short presentation by Tim Poole about the evolution of MCSI: what we’ve learned, what we’ve unlearned, and where we see the program in the future. Mackenzie (MCSI Coordinator) will also share updates on the monitoring season, as well as distribute MCSI volunteer badges and lanyards and Chimney Swift factsheets. After that, we will have some door prizes to give away, followed by snacks and visiting.

At around 8:15pm, we will move outdoors for a group swift watch at the zoo's artificial tower (weather permitting).

If you have any questions or want more information, please send us an email at: [email protected]

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