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Check out upcoming birding programs in our area:
Northeast Ohio REGIONAL BIRD CALENDAR 
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Wednesday, September 7th at 7:00 PM in Person and on Zoom - location & registration coming soon
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Chagrin River Bird Quest
Speaker: Matt Valencic Avid birder and educator Matt Valencic will talk to us about late summer birding and the Chagrin River Bird Quest, a fun event that's now in its 8th year, and explain how we can participate, see some great birds, and help support the Chagrin River IBA (Important Bird Area). Bird Quest takes place from 4 PM Friday, September 9th through 4 PM Saturday, September 10th - and concludes with a celebration at West Woods Park in Novelty from 4-6 PM on Saturday |
Birders of all levels of experience are welcome at this event!
A pre-event birding workshop will take place Saturday, August 27th from 9 AM to 11:30 AM. Refresh your skills or learn new ones! There will be at least two guided walks that are optional to join.
Click HERE for more details and to register for Bird Quest and the pre-event birding workshop
A pre-event birding workshop will take place Saturday, August 27th from 9 AM to 11:30 AM. Refresh your skills or learn new ones! There will be at least two guided walks that are optional to join.
Click HERE for more details and to register for Bird Quest and the pre-event birding workshop
SPECIAL EVENT!
Co-sponsored by Kirtland Bird Club and Western Reserve Land Conservancy
Co-sponsored by Kirtland Bird Club and Western Reserve Land Conservancy
Wednesday, September 14th at 6:30 PM on Zoom - registration details coming soom
Owls of the Eastern Ice
Speaker: Jonathan C. Slaght
From 2006-2010, Jonathan Slaght studied Blakiston’s fish owls in Russia for his PhD degree at the University of Minnesota. Slaght’s memoir of his experiences, called “Owls of the Eastern Ice,” was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in summer 2020 to acclaim. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2020, longlisted for a 2020 National Book Award, one of the ten best books of 2020 by the Wall Street Journal, and won the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Here, he will describe the owls and his project, including vivid details of the adventures and struggles described in the book, and on-going conservation efforts with this endangered species.
Jonathan Slaght is the Director of Conservation for the Russia Program of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). His duties include strategic planning, oversight, and technical support for the development and implementation of conservation priorities in Russia, with a focus on Amur tigers, leopards, Blakiston’s fish owls, and other iconic wildlife.
Slaght’s writings have been featured in The New York Times, Audubon Magazine, and The Guardian, among other outlets, and in 2016 he translated a 1921 Russian classic by Vladimir Arsenyev called Across the Ussuri Kray for Indiana University Press. Owls of the Eastern Ice was his first book.
Owls of the Eastern Ice
Speaker: Jonathan C. Slaght
From 2006-2010, Jonathan Slaght studied Blakiston’s fish owls in Russia for his PhD degree at the University of Minnesota. Slaght’s memoir of his experiences, called “Owls of the Eastern Ice,” was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in summer 2020 to acclaim. It was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2020, longlisted for a 2020 National Book Award, one of the ten best books of 2020 by the Wall Street Journal, and won the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Here, he will describe the owls and his project, including vivid details of the adventures and struggles described in the book, and on-going conservation efforts with this endangered species.
Jonathan Slaght is the Director of Conservation for the Russia Program of the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). His duties include strategic planning, oversight, and technical support for the development and implementation of conservation priorities in Russia, with a focus on Amur tigers, leopards, Blakiston’s fish owls, and other iconic wildlife.
Slaght’s writings have been featured in The New York Times, Audubon Magazine, and The Guardian, among other outlets, and in 2016 he translated a 1921 Russian classic by Vladimir Arsenyev called Across the Ussuri Kray for Indiana University Press. Owls of the Eastern Ice was his first book.
Summer KBC News!
- What should you do if you find an abandoned bird? or an injured, ill, or dead bird? Start by checking our new web page! You can find it under the tab "MORE" on the upper right of this page - Injured, Ill, or Abandoned
- BIRDERS SPOKE UP FOR BIRDS - Sherwin Williams has agreed to install some bird-friendly windows. Read the story HERE. Contact us at info@kirtlandbirdclub.org to join our Bird Coalition or to get more information.
- CUYAHOGA COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBER Sunny Simon SPOKE UP FOR BIRDS - Simon invited Matt Schumar and Tim Jasinski from Lights Out Cleveland, a representative from Rocket Mortgage Arena, and KBC's President Patty Kellner to accompany her and her staff from the Cuyahoga County Department of Public Works to tour venues in downtown Cleveland that are hazardous to birds. Councilwoman Simon has pledged to have bird-safe decals installed on County Buildings where there's a window problem and to continue to work with Lights Out Cleveland and Rocket Mortgage Field House to find ways to reduce bird-building collisions.
- KBC will be an exhibitor at the Summer "Family Reunion" Cookout of our allies at Black Environmental Leaders! The event will take place Saturday, September 3rd at Edgewater Park from 11 AM to 4 PM. KBC Members are encouraged to VOLUNTEER to staff our table and/or to take short bird walks with individuals or small groups. We will have our loaner binoculars at the event.
- Gautam Apte, KBC's February 2021 Gull ID presenter and our April 2022 Weather Effects on Migration speaker, started his first job as a college graduate on August 1st. He's been hired to survey birds every morning through all of Fall migration at Cape May Observatory in Cape May, New Jersey. Click HERE for the link to the site where Gautam reports - in real time!
- ICYMI - Great article on Lorain Impoundment - by Black River Audubon Society President Rob Swindell
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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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