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Category: Birdathon

  • 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…

  • Bruce and Ben Di Labio

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    Hi Everyone Over the decades I’ve done many “big days” starting in the mid 1970s on my bicycle and into the 1990s and early 2000s on competitive big days at the World Series of Birding, Texas Birding Classic and Taverner Cup. I thought I had seen all the possible weather conditions. Not so. I’ve dealt…

  • Young Birders

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    Report Celebrity Birders 2016

  • Doug McRae

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    Ivor Williams
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    Thank you very much for sponsoring me in the Baillie Birdathon this year. It is a great honour and pleasure to have been asked by OFO to be the guest birder for 2014. While there are lots of potential routes to try and generate a big list, I stayed with my heart and focused my…

  • Jeff and Richard Skevington, James Holdsworth and Frank Pinilla

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    2 June 2013 James Holdsworth, Frank Pinilla, Richard Skevington and I were honoured to be the Ontario Field Ornithologists’ celebrity birders in this year’s birdathon. With your help, about $3000 was raised. Twenty-five percent of this goes to support the OFO and the rest goes to Bird Studies Canada to support their programs. We decided…

  • John Cartwright

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    With great spring weather promised over the long week-end, I looked forward to doing my Birdathon where I had started birding in the late 1940s, in the Kingston area as a member of one of the teams that take part in the Kingston Field Naturalists’ annual spring round-up. Someone reminded us of how our birding…