Wild About Minnesota Birds
Bird Song Contest

OFFICIAL RULES

No purchase of any kind is necessary to enter or win.

Sponsor: Adventure Publications, 820 Cleveland Street South, Cambridge, MN 55008

Eligibility: To participate in the Wild About Minnesota Birds Bird Song Contest (“Contest”), entrant must be a Minnesota resident between 7 and 14 years of age, as of November 1, 2008. Classrooms or groups, such boy/girl scout troops, are welcome to enter. However, groups must enter under one member’s name on behalf of the group. Sponsor will treat each group entry as an individual entry. Employees of Sponsor and household members of employees are not eligible to participate in any contest or promotional event sponsored in whole or in part by the Sponsor. Subject to all federal, state and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited.

Agreement to Official Rules: By participating in the Contest, entrant and entrant’s parent(s)/legal guardian(s) fully and unconditionally agree to and accept these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, which are final and binding in all respects.

Timing: The Contest begins on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, and
ends on Saturday, September 6, 2008 (the “Contest Period”).

To Enter: Entrant must get the entry form(s) by downloading them at www.adventurepublications.net/bird_contest.htm or by picking up entry form(s) at participating locations. Entrant must get signed consent from a parent or legal guardian on every entry form that he/she submits. For each submitted entry form, entrant is required to listen to the bird in its natural habitat. Upon completing entry form(s), entrant may submit them in one of three ways: (1.) Mail entry forms—postmarked during the Contest Period—to Adventure Publications, ATTN: WAMB Contest, 820 Cleveland Street South, Cambridge, MN 55008, (2.) fax entry form(s) toll-free to 877-374-9016, or (3.) email entry form(s) to promo@adventurepublications.net. Limit one entry per person or group per category. Entries that are illegible or incomplete, that are sent after Saturday, September 6, 2008, or that are sent by any means other than U.S. Mail, fax or email will not be accepted. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, illegible, inaccurate, incomplete, altered, misdirected or undelivered entries or information, whether caused by technical malfunctions, human error or equipment failure, or by tampering, hacking or unauthorized access. Sponsor is also not responsible for any lost or delayed data transmission, or for any omission, interruption, deletion, defect or line failure of any telephone network, computer online system, server or provider, computer equipment or software, or for any traffic congestion on the internet or at any website, or any combination thereof which may cause or result in the delay, alteration, loss or destruction of any entry or information of any entrant. The Sponsor is not responsible for any injury or damage to any entrant’s computer related to or resulting from accessing or downloading the Contest Rules or any other information pertaining to the Contest from the Sponsor’s website.

Prize Winners: A panel of judges will rate the entries in each of the Contest’s six categories: American Robin, Blue Jay, Common Loon, Killdeer, Mourning Dove and Red-winged Blackbird. The judges will choose one prize winner from each category, for a total of six winners, based on the following criteria: (1.) How well the song description matches the pattern of the bird’s song or call, (2.) creativity and (3.) uniqueness. All decisions by the judges will be final and binding. Each prize winner receives binoculars, Bird Log Kids, Birds of Minnesota Field Guide and Audio CDs Set, Wild About Minnesota Birds and two tickets to the Science Museum of Minnesota. Each winner will have his/her winning entry and name featured in the next printing of Wild About Minnesota Birds. Each entrant is eligible to win one category only. In the event of duplicate winning entries within a category, prizes will be split among the category’s chosen winners. Sponsor reserves the right to name no prize winners and to award no prizes for any and all categories in which the judges determine no entries to be sufficient. Prizes are not transferable and substitutions are not permitted. In the event that any winner chooses not to accept a prize or is disqualified for any reason, that prize will be forfeited. Winners are responsible for all taxes, if any, assessed on prizes awarded. The prizes do not include spending money, meals, gratuity, transportation costs, service charges, insurance and other expenses or items not specifically described as part of the prize. Any and all fees associated with prize receipt, redemption and use are the sole responsibility of winner. Sponsor will not be held responsible for entries misplaced, lost, stolen or not received for any reason. All entry forms become the property of Sponsor and will not be returned.

Notification: All prize winners will be notified by mail on or before November 15, 2008. Prizes will be shipped to all prize winners with notification.

Publicity: Except where prohibited, participation in the Contest constitutes winner’s and winner’s parents’/legal guardians’ consent to the Sponsor’s use of winner’s name, likeness, biographical information, hometown and state for promotional purposes in any media without any further payment or consideration.

General Conditions: Sponsor reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest if fraud, technical failure or any other factor beyond Sponsor’s reasonable control impairs the integrity of the Contest as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any individual it finds to be tampering with the entry process or operation of the Contest or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in an unsportsmanlike manner. Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

Release: By entering this Contest, entrant and entrant’s parent(s)/legal guardian(s) agree to release and hold harmless Adventure Publications and its employees and agents from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the Contest or receipt, redemption or use of the prizes.

Winners List: For Contest results, a winners list will be made available at www.adventurepublications.net/bird_contest.htm for a period of 30 days from conclusion of the Contest.