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Special Discounted Rates at Lakeside during the month of May Madness!
Reserve a hotel room at the Fountain Inn from 5/1 through 5/20 for only $69.00 per night. This is an “online only” reservation rate.
Visit Lakeside's website and click the tab “Staying At Lakeside”. Please enter the following event code in the field provided: OOS2012. This will provide the discounted room rate for you during your stay. Continental Breakfast is provided for hotel guests.
Lakeside is not fully operational until Memorial Day Weekend, but there will be several restaurants and shops open within Lakeside during that time.
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Magee Madness - Call for Volunteers!
Be a part of the 2012 Magee Madness! Help support the OOS by
volunteering to staff our table at the Boardwalk during International
Migratory Bird Day. We will be there on Saturday and Sunday from 6:00 AM
till 3:00 PM.
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The Carbon Offset Bird Project was a huge success at MBS! The basic idea is to encourage birders to offset their use of fossil fuels while birding, by contributing to the purchase of habitat that will be preserved. Meadowbrook Marsh a Danbury Township park, near Lakeside. We are in the process of creating a COBP calculator for you to determine a contribution based on your travels across the state and beyond in search of rare birds!
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The Ohio Ornithological Society has partnered with The Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas II and has created a sponsor-a-bird auction to generate funds for the Atlas book. During the next few months, we will be auctioning each species that will have a full account in the published Atlas. Winning bidders will be recognized by name as the official sponsor on the species account in the book. Through your sponsorships, we will be able to lower the printing costs of the Atlas book to an affordable price for everyone.
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American Kestrel Partnership
The OOS is excited to partner with The Peregrine Fund to recruit citizen
and professional scientists, focused primarily on generating data for
modeling and understanding the relationships between nesting
demographics, environmental conditions and competition with or predation
by other bird species.
Nina Harfmann, of Pleasant Plain, Ohio is the winning photographer in
ODNR's Third Annual Ohio Wildlife Legacy Stamp (OWLS) competition. Funds
from sales of OWL stamps fund projects including tracking migration of
Sandhill Cranes, research of wild-life habitat, support of endangered
and threatened species, education of students and wildlife enthusiasts,
plus generation of funds for habitat restoration, land purchases, and
conservation easements. In 2010, the inaugural year for OWL, more than
$20,000 was raised for wildlife conservation. Many thanks to Ohio
Department of Natural Resources: The Ohio Division of Wildlife. Stamps
will be available for purchase on March 31st.
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