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Winter Membership Special!
The board of the Ohio Ornithological Society sends their warmest wishes of good birds during this holiday season and in the New Year! Now is the perfect time to be part of Ohio's Birding Network. We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to join or renew for a special limited-time offer.
Midwest Birding Symposium Conservation
OOS Matches $10,000 for Conservation Funds Raised! During this year's Midwest Birding Symposium and through generous attendee participation, $12,388 was raised in fundraising efforts! The Ohio Ornithological Society was thrilled to MATCHED $10,000 of funds raised: the GRAND TOTAL to disperse to local, regional, and national conservation groups is $22,388!
Major thanks goes out to the Bird Watcher's Digest team for procuring raffle and auction items from sponsors, vendors, and patrons. Bird Watcher's Digest is written by birders and for birders, has been America's favorite magazine since 1978. BWD presents a special offer to Ohio birders: if you subscribe to Bird Watcher's Digest (BWD) today, then BWD will send our organization $10 for EVERY new subscription at $19.99.
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Carbon Offset Bird Project
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!
Learn More »Lake Erie Birding Trail
The Ohio Division of Wildlife officially opened the Lake Erie Birding Trail at East Harbor State Park at the Midwest Birding Symposium this September.
The LEBT covers the Ohio Lake Erie shoreline, from Conneaut to west of Toledo, with information on 84 birding hotspots stretching across 312 miles of Ohio shoreline. The website has details on access, parking, amenities, trails, and directions as well as information on rarities and finding secretive species.
Learn More »Ohio Projects
Sponsor A Species Program
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.
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.
SUPPORT OHIO'S WILDLIFE LEGACY STAMP (OWLS)
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.
