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Check out upcoming birding programs in our area:
Northeast Ohio REGIONAL BIRD CALENDAR 
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Read our Spring newsletter!
Click HERE 
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In case you missed it!
Wednesday, May 4, 2022 - Click HERE for video The Bird Specimen Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Presenter: Courtney Brennan, Senior Collections Manager This was the first live KBC meeting in 2 years! Courtney talked about the museum's collections - the source of birds, the preparation and storage of bird specimens, and the research that's done with the specimens. Many of the birds in the collection come from Lights Out Cleveland, a group that attempts to rescue bird victims of window collisions in downtown Cleveland. Live birds from those rescue efforts go to Lake Erie Nature & Science Center for rehab. The museum gets the dead birds (which way outnumber the live birds) and those birds are used to augment the museum's specimen collection and for research studies around the world. Courtney showed specimens of Spring migrants and also demonstrated live how specimens are prepared. |
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Click HERE to read about other upcoming Kirtland Bird Club programs
During Spring migration, upwards of 21 species of warblers have been recorded in a single day, along with hordes of thrushes, vireos, flycatchers, kinglets, sparrows, and more. Nesting birds include the rare Cerulean, Prothonotary and Yellow-throated Warblers, Louisiana Waterthrush, Blue-headed and Yellow-throated Vireos, Brown Creeper and Bald Eagle
Click HERE for an eBird Bar Chart for Spring Migration at this location 2019-2021
Click HERE for an eBird Bar Chart for Spring Migration at this location 2019-2021
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Wednesday, June 1st
Kirtland Bird Club Walk & Picnic Squire Vallevue Farm A lovely spot for Meadowlarks & Bobolinks! 
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More info to come! |
Northeast Ohio Bird Coalition - Advocacy for Safety and Habitat
At the end of our January KBC meeting we discussed starting a coalition of bird-interested organizations to work on making Northeast Ohio more bird-friendly: promoting bird safety and bird habitat in Northeast Ohio through collective action. If you are interested in helping form this coalition or have ideas about what directions the coalition might take, please email info@kirtlandbirdclub.org. In the mean time, take a look at our Bird-Friendly City page.
At the end of our January KBC meeting we discussed starting a coalition of bird-interested organizations to work on making Northeast Ohio more bird-friendly: promoting bird safety and bird habitat in Northeast Ohio through collective action. If you are interested in helping form this coalition or have ideas about what directions the coalition might take, please email info@kirtlandbirdclub.org. In the mean time, take a look at our Bird-Friendly City page.
Spring KBC News!
plan a reality - read that news HERE
* View the CHEERS redevelopment plan for the Cleveland eastside lakefront from Burke
Airport to Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve HERE
- BIRD FLU - Reporting requested! Numerous Canada Geese and other species of wild birds have been found dead in northeast Ohio and elsewhere without an obvious cause. A strain of influenza, H5N1, is suspected and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), is checking to see if this strain is the cause. This is a strain of influenza that typically affects chickens, and it has not been a significant threat to humans in the past. ODNR asks that people seeing ill or dead birds to report them. Click HERE to read the page from ODNR on Avian Influenza.
- LIGHTS OUT CLEVELAND is underway. Click HERE to read about the problem with lights, the program that rescues injured birds, and opportunities to volunteer each Spring and Fall.
- The CHEERS project is moving along
plan a reality - read that news HERE
* View the CHEERS redevelopment plan for the Cleveland eastside lakefront from Burke
Airport to Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve HERE
- BIRDERS SPOKE UP FOR BIRDS and Got Heard by City of Cleveland - Cleveland Planning Commission approved the Sherwin Williams Headquarters design, but set a contingency that requires Sherwin Williams to address the concerns of our birding community and report back! Read the story HERE. Contact us at info@kirtlandbirdclub.org to join our Bird Coalition or to get more information.
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Reminders from the American Birding Association: |
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WELCOME! KBC welcomes all people interested in birds - regardless of gender identity, sexual preference, ethnicity, skin color, age, or skill level. All of our regular programs are free. |
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ABOUT KBC
Kirtland Bird Club was founded in 1940 and named after Dr. Jared Kirtland who is the namesake for Kirtland Warbler.
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