Our beautiful festival magazine (expanded to 96 pages this year!) features:
🐦TONS of festival and birding information 🐦LOTS of bird conservation messages 🐦a warbler ID guide with female plumages included 🐦a gorgeous cover image designed by Paul Riss at BRDR BATL / BRDR BOX (and if you think the cover would make a great t-shirt, you're in luck!) 🐦an article on accessibility by Freya McGregor with Access Birding that features interviews with disabled birders who will inspire you with their perspectives on birding 🐦an article on The Great Black Swamp by local historian Jim Mollenkopf 🐦updates from our partners at Metroparks Toledo and Ohio Division of Wildlife 🐦a wonderful "Fun Places to Visit" section created by our Biggest Week co-hosts, Shores & Islands Ohio and Destination Toledo 🐦a local dining guide 🐦and SO MUCH MORE! Pick up your FREE copy on newsstands throughout northwest Ohio or
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We're absolutely thrilled to announce the 2024 keynote lineup for The Biggest Week In American Birding! We have New York Times Best Selling Authors, a HUGE book launch, and more!
Christian Cooper - Friday, May 3 Tammah Watts - Saturday, May 4 Kevin Karlson - Sunday, May 5 Peter Kaestner - Monday, May 6 Kenn Kaufman - Tuesday, May 7 Amy Tan - Wednesday, May 8 Jerry Berrier - Thursday, May 9 Jennifer Ackerman - Friday, May 10 |
Introducing the NEW Biggest Week in American Birding Field Trip Site Guides! This exciting library of resources helps share information about one of the most popular aspects of the festival. In these site guides, you will find information about the locations the trips visit, accessibility information, meeting locations, target species, and how to get your eBird checklists following the trip.
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The Biggest Week In American Birding will add two new field trips to our lineup this year! Birding the Lakefront takes a deeper dive into Maumee Bay State Park, Mallard Club Wildlife Area, Howard Marsh Metropark, and Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area with hopes of finding a wide variety of songbirds, waterfowl, shorebirds, and more! Our new Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge van trip explores many of the new and less-visited parts of the beloved Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in addition to the sites that birders may be more familiar with. These new trips, along with our existing lineup, are sure to create fun, meaningful, and lifer-filled birding memories!
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The Biggest Week In American Birding is excited to announce the start of a morning flight count! Many songbird species migrate nocturnally, and this movement continues into the early hours of the morning. These flights can last for several hours, as birds that were over water near sunrise search for an ideal place to land. Join our counters and guides every morning (weather permitting) on the dike path that separates the marsh from Lake Erie at Metzger Marsh Wildlife Area. Thank you to our friends at Kowa Sporting Optics for sponsoring this exciting new event!
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