Kirtland Bird Club
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  • CALENDAR
  • ACTIVITIES
    • MONTHLY PROGRAMS
    • FIELD TRIPS
    • CLEVELAND LAKEFRONT PRESERVE BIRD SURVEYS
    • CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT >
      • 2020 Cleveland Christmas Bird Count
      • 2019 Christmas Bird Count Results
      • About Christmas Bird Counts
      • Christmas Bird Count Records
    • OAPI - Ohio Avian Project Initiative >
      • ABOUT OAPI - APPLY
      • Past OAPI Grants
    • Cleveland Bird Calendar
  • ABOUT KBC
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    • KBC OFFICERS & COMMITTEES
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  • SUPPORT KBC
    • BECOME A MEMBER
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  • KBC Archives
    • Birding While Black Archive
    • Past Speakers
    • Past Bird ID Programs
    • Past Field Trips
    • PAST NEWSLETTERS
    • PAST MEETING MINUTES
    • Cleveland Bird Calendar Archive >
      • VOLUMES 100 - 111 / YEARS 2004 - 2015
      • VOLUMES 090 - 099 / YEARS 1994 - 2003
      • VOLUMES 080 - 089 / YEARS 1984 - 1993
      • VOLUMES 070 - 079 / YEARS 1974 - 1983
      • VOLUMES 060 - 069 / YEARS 1964 - 1973
      • VOLUMES 050 - 059 / YEARS 1954 - 1963
      • VOLUMES 040 - 049 / YEARS 1944 - 1953
      • VOLUMES 030 - 039 / YEARS 1934 - 1943
      • VOLUMES 020 - 029 / YEARS 1924 - 1933
      • VOLUMES 010 - 019 / YEARS 1914 - 1923
      • VOLUMES 001 - 009 / YEARS 1905 - 1913
    • Old News
    • PHOTO GALLERY
  • For New Birders
  • Backyard Birding
  • Native Plants
  • The Bird-Friendly City
  • Bird Science
  • Links to Other Birding Organizations
  • References Sherwin Williams

Visitors may Register HERE - Kirtland Bird Club members automatically receive the Zoom link

Click HERE to read about other upcoming Kirtland Bird Club programs 
To reserve a spot: This is a driving field trip on backroads, with stops at various locations to look for birds. Registration is on a first come basis through info@kirtlandbirdclub.org. We will confirm all registrations and provide a meeting location.  Please include your name, phone number, and who else, if anyone, will be in your car.  Decisions about COVID safety in cars are left to you and your car's occupants. 

*If you are not included in one of the six vehicles and/or want to explore the area on your own, contact info@kirtlandbirdclub.org for a printed self-guiding itinerary.
Wednesday, January __, 2023 

​Ornithology News and Discoveries from 2022
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Presented by Dr. Andy Jones
Dr. Andy Jones, curator of ornithology at Cleveland Museum of Natural History, will give his annual update on what's new in ornithology.  There are thousands of academic papers published every year on the biology of birds. These new discoveries are sometimes highlighted in newspapers, magazines, and on your Facebook feed, but far too many simply don't get the public attention that they deserve.  Dr. Jones will highlight the taxonomic changes that birders will want to know about, as well as other discoveries that will simply make us more observant and more informed birders.  
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Dr. Andy Jones holds the William A. and Nancy R. Klamm Chair and is Curator of Ornithologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He received his BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and his PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Jones originally hails from east Tennessee, where his passion for natural history began at an early age; his first field notes were a count of toads in his front yard at age five. His current research involves the evolutionary history of birds, diagnosing new hybrid combinations, and migration insights from Lights Out Cleveland. Dr. Jones is responsible for the Museum’s collection of avian specimens, which consists of over 35,000 study skins as well as thousands of nests, eggs, and skeletons. His other tasks include providing various services to the scientific community, the media, the Museum’s exhibitions and education divisions and the public at large. Dr. Jones has served as the Secretary of the American Ornithological Society since 2014, and in 2017 was elected as a Fellow of that organization.
Register HERE to register for this free program. 
      Note: Club members automatically receive a Zoom link.  

Birdwatching for Everyone - Six sessions and done!

Big THANKS to our audience and all of our presenters!
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Videos and resources from past sessions can be found HERE
Email info@kirtlandbirdclub.org if you'd like to learn more about how to become a birdwatcher!  And check out our New Birder resource page!
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Meet Us at the Lakefront!  

Saturday, September 25th, 2-5 PM
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Find us on the biggest grassy area at N Gordon Park

​ - Guided Tours: Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve
 - Loaner Binoculars Available

Access is from North Marginal Road
Click HERE to see this location on an interactive map
June is LGBTQIA Pride Month !   Show your PRIDE !    Get your swag HERE !
Wednesday, May 5th, 2021 on Zoom
​The Bird Nerds of Collinwood with Nicole Jackson

We heard from The Bird Nerds, a group of Collinwood middle and high school students who learned to bird  from their teacher, Buster Banish, on after school and weekend field trips. 

The Bird Nerds have had some terrific adventures and they shared the challenges and triumphs of their journey, including tips and techniques for new birders.
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​Nicole Jackson, environmental educator and co-founder of #BlackBirdersWeek, 
moderated.. 

Read more about Nicole 
HERE.  

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#BlackBirdersWeek 2021 took place May 30th to June 5th.
Click HERE to see future Kirtland Bird Club Programs.  

Click HERE for past speaker programs and video links to those programs.

Click HERE for past Bird Identification programs and video links to those programs.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - click HERE for the video recording of this program
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The Bird-Friendly City
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Presented by ​Dr. Timothy Beatley
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How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are sickened by rat poison. These name just a few of the myriad hazards. How do our cities need to change in order to reduce the threats, often created unintentionally, that have resulted in nearly three billion birds lost in North America alone since the 1970s?
 
In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, took us on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Beatley shared empowering examples, including: advocates for “catios,” enclosed outdoor spaces that allow cats to enjoy backyards without being able to catch birds; a public relations campaign for vultures; and innovations in building design that balance aesthetics with preventing bird strikes. Through these changes and the others Beatley described, it is possible to make our urban environments more welcoming to many bird species.
 
What he shares motivates us to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, with inspiring examples on which to draw. Whether birds are migrating and need temporary shelter or are taking up permanent residence in a backyard, when the environment is safer for birds, humans are happier as well.

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Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last twenty-five years. Much of Beatley’s work focuses on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. Beatley believes that sustainable and resilient cities represent our best hope for addressing today’s environmental challenges. - Ref: https://www.arch.virginia.edu/people/tim-beatley

Upcoming KBC Speakers - dates to be announced

  • Renowned Botanist/land preservation specialist Jim Bissell​
  • KBC member Dwight Chasar on the history of birding in Northeast Ohio
  • Bird guide/author/traveler Ethan Kistler

                                                                                                                          More details to follow!

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Sunday, February 7th - video recording available soon

Gull ID with Gautam Apte

Gautam reviewed identification tips for the seven common gulls seen in Lake Erie off of Cleveland and discussed less commonly seen gulls as well.
Click here  to view a video recording of this presentation

Click here to view the powerpoint Gautam showed during his presentation - Thanks, Gautam!
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Click here for past Bird Identification programs and video links to those programs.
Click HERE​ if you would like to join us for this talk but are not already a member of our club.
The Kirtland Bird Club has a long tradition of supporting the Cleveland Christmas Bird Count.  Anyone can participate in the count, whether you are counting birds at your backyard feeders or tromping through woods and fields.

Other Christmas Bird Counts in our area are typically scheduled for other days.  You can find the location of those counts and their contact info by clicking the interactive map HERE.

Click HERE for an interactive map showing the extent of Christmas Bird Counts worldwide!

Click HERE to read more about the the history of Christmas Bird Counts.
​Christmas Bird Count
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Midnight to Midnight!

 
Established Groups 
  • Because of COVID, groups are limited to previous participants, with an expectation that all participants will stay properly masked, maintain proper hand hygiene, and socially distance themselves from other participants.
  • Group leaders and participants should speak with each other about plans.

Other folks and those wanting to bird solo 
  • Our Christmas Bird Count compiler Andy Jones encourages everyone to count birds on their own!
  • Neighborhood and feeder birds do count!
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Contact Andy Jones with questions
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MONTHLY MEETINGS LOCATION:
We meet 
at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval, University Circle
Cleveland, OH
                                 On the first Wednesday of the month                                                          September through June
 >>In Person meetings our on Hold due to COVID-19<<

​CHEERS - New Initiative led by Cleveland Metroparks to Improve the Lakefront - KBC is involved!
     
The year-long study "will focus on leveraging nature-based solutions to improve the environment, reconnect communities to the lake, enhance public health and wellness, bolster the economy, and improve aquatic and terrestrial habitats".

​Read about the Cheers project on Cleveland.com.  Provide your input on the Cheers website - add your ideas, or take a survey that also gives you an opportunity to be counted and share your thoughts with the developers.   KBC members  Laura Gooch, Julie West, Lukas Padegimas, and Patty Kellner are involved
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Location

The Cleveland Museum of
Natural History
1 Wade Oval, University Circle, Cleveland, OH

our mission

The objectives of the KBC are the serious study of ornithology with a view to increasing the knowledge of individual members, the exchange of ornithological experiences and records, the compilation and publication of important information on birds, and the promotion of good fellowship among its members.

KIRTLAND BIRD CLUB    |  CLEVELAND, OH
Founded in  1940
www.kirtlandbirdclub.org

​All rights reserved. 2020
CONTACT US
  • HOME
  • CALENDAR
  • ACTIVITIES
    • MONTHLY PROGRAMS
    • FIELD TRIPS
    • CLEVELAND LAKEFRONT PRESERVE BIRD SURVEYS
    • CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT >
      • 2020 Cleveland Christmas Bird Count
      • 2019 Christmas Bird Count Results
      • About Christmas Bird Counts
      • Christmas Bird Count Records
    • OAPI - Ohio Avian Project Initiative >
      • ABOUT OAPI - APPLY
      • Past OAPI Grants
    • Cleveland Bird Calendar
  • ABOUT KBC
    • ABOUT US
    • KBC OFFICERS & COMMITTEES
    • KBC NEWSLETTER
    • ABOUT OUR NAME
    • CONTACT US
  • SUPPORT KBC
    • BECOME A MEMBER
    • DONATE
  • KBC Archives
    • Birding While Black Archive
    • Past Speakers
    • Past Bird ID Programs
    • Past Field Trips
    • PAST NEWSLETTERS
    • PAST MEETING MINUTES
    • Cleveland Bird Calendar Archive >
      • VOLUMES 100 - 111 / YEARS 2004 - 2015
      • VOLUMES 090 - 099 / YEARS 1994 - 2003
      • VOLUMES 080 - 089 / YEARS 1984 - 1993
      • VOLUMES 070 - 079 / YEARS 1974 - 1983
      • VOLUMES 060 - 069 / YEARS 1964 - 1973
      • VOLUMES 050 - 059 / YEARS 1954 - 1963
      • VOLUMES 040 - 049 / YEARS 1944 - 1953
      • VOLUMES 030 - 039 / YEARS 1934 - 1943
      • VOLUMES 020 - 029 / YEARS 1924 - 1933
      • VOLUMES 010 - 019 / YEARS 1914 - 1923
      • VOLUMES 001 - 009 / YEARS 1905 - 1913
    • Old News
    • PHOTO GALLERY
  • For New Birders
  • Backyard Birding
  • Native Plants
  • The Bird-Friendly City
  • Bird Science
  • Links to Other Birding Organizations
  • References Sherwin Williams