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Northeast Ohio
REGIONAL BIRD CALENDAR Check out upcoming birding programs in our area! 
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Wednesday, December 4th at 7:00 PM
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Speaker Presentation and Holiday Celebration
Food, drink, good companionship, and an interesting talk! Click HERE for reservations and details, including a Zoom-only option. |
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Topic: Lynds Jones,
The Birdman of Oberlin Speaker: Diana Steele Location: Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Lynds Jones (1865-1951) was a pioneering ornithologist and ecologist from Ohio who is responsible for many of the common practices that recreational birders take for granted as “standard practice” in the field, more than a century later, including keeping lists, doing Big Days, and the Christmas Bird Count. At Oberlin College in 1892, Jones began teaching ornithology, which was the first course of its kind ever offered at an American college or university. |
Lynds Jones, age 64, 1926
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Not only was Jones a professor at Oberlin for nearly four decades, he also had a tremendous impact on the fields of ornithology and recreational birding. He founded both an ornithological society (The Wilson Ornithological Society, 1888) and a journal (now the Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 1889); both are active today. Jones was also an early pioneer and mentor in ecology and founded the first-ever department of animal ecology in 1915.
Diana Steele has been a science writer for more than 30 years. She is an avid birder and has birded in all 50 U.S. States and six continents. An active volunteer with Black River Audubon Society, she is a birding guide on the Lake Erie Islands and a former board member of the Ohio Ornithological Society. |
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Christmas Bird Count Saturday, December 21, 2024 Midnight to Midnight! Click HERE for details for last year's CBC! |
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Saturday, January 4, 2025, 9:00 AM
Geauga County Backroads Meeting place: LaDue Reservoir 17759 Valley Road Auburn Township (click HERE for google map) Leader: Matt Valencic Please register for this field trip at [email protected]. Please include your name and contact information so we can notify you if the trip is cancelled due to weather. Let us know also if you would like to borrow binoculars for the trip. |
>>>>>>>>>> Rough-legged Hawk, Light Morph <<<<<<<<<< Photo by Matt Valencic
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Starting point: LaDue Reservoir
If the water is open, we will spend time here looking for waterfowl on the lake and drive up and down Valley Road to look for birds along the edges of the road.
Next stop: Troy Wetlands.18753 Claridon-Troy Road, Hiram (Click HERE for a google map)
If the water is open, we will look for more waterfowl and ‘edge’ birds. There are boardwalks and short trails (0.8-mile total) here. This is the #2 Hotspot in Geauga County for 2024 (164 species). Port-o-Potty for emergencies. If the water is frozen, we'll move on.
Last two stops:
Depending on the time, next we will either go to the Soltis Road area (click HERE for google map) for birding or to the Market Express at the Gulf Station in Parkman for lunch (click HERE for google map)
If the water is open, we will spend time here looking for waterfowl on the lake and drive up and down Valley Road to look for birds along the edges of the road.
Next stop: Troy Wetlands.18753 Claridon-Troy Road, Hiram (Click HERE for a google map)
If the water is open, we will look for more waterfowl and ‘edge’ birds. There are boardwalks and short trails (0.8-mile total) here. This is the #2 Hotspot in Geauga County for 2024 (164 species). Port-o-Potty for emergencies. If the water is frozen, we'll move on.
Last two stops:
Depending on the time, next we will either go to the Soltis Road area (click HERE for google map) for birding or to the Market Express at the Gulf Station in Parkman for lunch (click HERE for google map)
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 - on Zoom
Topic: Southeastern Landscapes: Managing for Remarkable Diversity Speaker: Andy Jones, PhD Executive Director, Spring Island Trust Okatie, South Carolina |
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Hear from Andy Jones, former Curator or Ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, about what he's been up to since he left Cleveland! A return to the south where he grew up landed him on Spring Island as the chief steward of nature for this 3,000-acre, nature preserve and residential community in the South Carolina low country between Beaufort and Hilton Head Island. The mission of the Spring Island Trust, where Andy is the Executive Director, is to preserve and protect Spring Island's environment and cultural history, providing education, expertise, and leadership in the conservation of natural resources throughout the low country.
Dr. Andy Jones is a lifelong naturalist, with a passion for the biodiversity of the southeastern United States. Andy originally hails from Kingsport, TN, and Raleigh, NC, where his natural history interests began at an early age (his first field notes - counting toads in the front yard – were written when he was 5 years old). He studied biological sciences at the University of Tennessee, and completed his PhD on the evolutionary history of Philippine birds at the University of Minnesota.
From 2006 until early 2022, he worked as curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. There, he continued research on birds using genetic tools, spanning topics such as the taxonomy of terns of the world, identifying newly discovered hybrid combinations in the wild, and the evolutionary history of boreal bird species. He also became one of the team leads on Lights Out Cleveland, a group working with building managers to turn lights off during migration as well as coordinating volunteers to recover injured and dead birds that collided with buildings.
Register HERE for the Zoom link to this program.
Click HERE to see future Kirtland Bird Club Programs.
Click HERE for past speaker programs and video links to those programs.
Dr. Andy Jones is a lifelong naturalist, with a passion for the biodiversity of the southeastern United States. Andy originally hails from Kingsport, TN, and Raleigh, NC, where his natural history interests began at an early age (his first field notes - counting toads in the front yard – were written when he was 5 years old). He studied biological sciences at the University of Tennessee, and completed his PhD on the evolutionary history of Philippine birds at the University of Minnesota.
From 2006 until early 2022, he worked as curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. There, he continued research on birds using genetic tools, spanning topics such as the taxonomy of terns of the world, identifying newly discovered hybrid combinations in the wild, and the evolutionary history of boreal bird species. He also became one of the team leads on Lights Out Cleveland, a group working with building managers to turn lights off during migration as well as coordinating volunteers to recover injured and dead birds that collided with buildings.
Register HERE for the Zoom link to this program.
Click HERE to see future Kirtland Bird Club Programs.
Click HERE for past speaker programs and video links to those programs.
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Zoom recording of our November meeting available soon:
Black Swamp Bird Observatory's Songbird Research recorded Wednesday, November 6, 2024 Speaker: Ryan Jacob, Banding Projects Director at Black Swamp Bird Observatory For over 30 years, Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) has been researching migrating and breeding songbirds in northwest Ohio. |
Prothonotary Warbler on Magee Marsh boardwalk railing in May 2023 - cell phone photo by Patty Kellner
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With hundreds of thousands of birds banded and encounters made, there's an almost endless number of stories, insights, and moments of inspiration to be told. In this presentation, BSBO's Banding Projects Director, Ryan Jacob, highlighted remarkable feats made by banded songbirds captured in northwest Ohio. He provided a glimpse into BSBO's long-term dataset. Ryan also discussed a project initiated with the support of Kirtland Bird Club's Ohio Avian Project Initiative (OAPI) to track Prothonotary Warblers through the Motus network of automated radio telemetry towers.
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Recap of KBC October Field Trip
at Sandy Ridge Reservation 6195 Otten Road, North Ridgeville, OH 22 birders, 47 species + 3 other taxa Our ebird checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S199504418 More information about this location: birdinghotspots.org/hotspot/L213276 Bar chart bird observations: ebird.org/barchart?byr=1900&eyr=2024&bmo=1&emo=12&r=L213276 (be patient - it takes a minute for page to load) |
Some of what we saw!
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PROGRAMS & FIELD TRIPS ON THE HORIZON
Our December 4th KBC speaker meetings will be part of a KBC celebration at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes starting at 6:00 PM. Our speaker will be longtime birder, field guide, and writer Diana Steele talking about Lynds Jones, an important figure in the development of the field of ornithology. We'll be sharing details about the celebration soon!
Our January 8th KBC Speaker meeting will be on Zoom at 7PM. Our guest will be ornithologist and former Clevelander Andy Jones talking about Spring Island, between Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, where he is the executive director of the Spring Island Trust.
Click HERE for more details about our upcoming field trips.
Click HERE to read about past field trips. See what birds were seen where and when!
Our December 4th KBC speaker meetings will be part of a KBC celebration at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes starting at 6:00 PM. Our speaker will be longtime birder, field guide, and writer Diana Steele talking about Lynds Jones, an important figure in the development of the field of ornithology. We'll be sharing details about the celebration soon!
Our January 8th KBC Speaker meeting will be on Zoom at 7PM. Our guest will be ornithologist and former Clevelander Andy Jones talking about Spring Island, between Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia, where he is the executive director of the Spring Island Trust.
Click HERE for more details about our upcoming field trips.
Click HERE to read about past field trips. See what birds were seen where and when!
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OUR MISSION
To bring people of Greater Cleveland and beyond together to learn about, enjoy, and support birds through observation, study, and advocacy |
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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 of Lakewood, whose name was given to Kirtland's Warbler after he described it in Lakewood,
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