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  • Birding With Pride

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    Join the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) at Point Pelee National Park on May 4th for the second annual Birding With Pride event open house during the Festival of Birds! Join us at the North West Beach pavilion for refreshments and to meet fellow members of the birding community, learn more about OFO, and join guided…

  • Bird of the Year – Submissions

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    Ivor Williams
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    Alessandra Kite’s rendition of a flying male Bobolink gained the most votes from members, making it our first Bird of the Year logo! You can purchase it on a variety of items at the OFO Redbubble store –https://www.redbubble.com/people/OFOmerch/shop Here are the other submissions.

  • 2023 Gull Weekend

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    Plan your visit for the Gull Weekend: Two days of birding, learning, and fun Saturday, December 2nd 9:30 – 12:00: Explore Welland Canal Explore one of Niagara’s premier local hotspots with leaders from the Peninsula Field Naturalists. Good chances for late-migrant passerines and winter residents, gulls, and water birds. Registration required. 1:00 – 3:00 Learn about…

  • Bird of the Year – Voting on Artwork begins!

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    It’s finally time to choose the logo for the OFO Bird of the Year! We were thrilled to see the number of artistic renditions of the Bobolink that were submitted by talented birder-artists from across Ontario. All submissions are available to see and vote. Artists names will be kept anonymous for now, this will make…

  • Bird of the Year

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    We are excited to announce the 2024 OFO Bird of The Year, the Bobolink! This bird was voted on by all members attending the convention on the weekend, narrowly beating out Upland Sandpiper by 20 votes. One of the most sought-after grassland species in the province, and also a very charismatic species with an interesting…

  • Norfolk County Big Day

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    By: Rowan Keunen ▪ Liam Thorne ▪ Piper Smith ▪ Max Segler On May 21, the four of us met up at Coppen’s Tract, where we spent a short evening sleeping in our cars at the roadside. Our alarms were set for 1:50 a.m. so that we could get an early start looking for owls…

  • Welcome to OFO’s Celebrity Birders for 2023!

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    Rowan Keunen, Max Segler, Piper Smith and Liam Thorne will be participating in the 2023 Birds Canada Birdathon to raise funds for OFO’s Young Birders Program and to support bird research and conservation through Birds Canada. The OFO Big Day Birdathon will be taking place this year on May 22. Our celebrity young birders have…

  • Tom Hince, Paul Pratt and Bruce Di Labio

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    OFO’s Celebrity Birders Big Sit Birdathon Summary 2019 By Bruce Di Labio Tom Hince, Paul Pratt, and I had lots of fun on our second annual Big Sit fundraiser for the Ontario Field Ornithologists May 11, 2019. We used the same location as last year, west side of the tip of Point Pelee National Park.…

  • Bruce Di Labio, Paul Pratt and Tom Hince

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    Hello Ontbirders, Wondering how we did? Tom Hince, Paul Pratt, and myself just wrapped up our Big Sit fundraiser for the Ontario Field Orthithologists. We picked a spot on the west side of the Tip of Point Pelee National Park. Park staff (especially Sarah Rupert) kindly allowed early access to the Tip and were very…

  • Jeremy Bensette, Dan Riley and Josh Vandermeulen

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    Jeremy, Dan and I planned to complete our Birdathon within the confines of the Point Pelee Birding Area on May 13, 2017. Compared to Big Day attempts elsewhere in the province, Point Pelee Big Days are highly dependent on the local conditions, in particular the variety of migrant species that happen to be in the…