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  • FESTIVAL INFO
    • Biggest Week 2023 Photo Gallery
    • FAQs >
      • INFO FOR NEW BIRDERS
    • BECOME A 2024 SPONSOR
    • VISITORS' GUIDE MAGAZINE
    • FESTIVAL eNEWS & SOCIAL MEDIA
    • BIGGEST WEEK VOLUNTEERS
    • FESTIVAL LOCATIONS
    • MICHAEL HUTCHINS MEMORIAL CONSERVATION FUND
    • CONSERVATION INITIATIVES
    • MEDIA COVERAGE
    • CONTACT US
  • Registration
    • REFUND POLICY
  • Speakers
    • 2023 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
    • 2023 WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
    • 2023 World Birding Travel Presenters
  • Festival Schedule
    • Special Events >
      • OPENING CEREMONY
      • BIRDER'S BANQUET
      • EVENING SOCIALS
      • BIRDER'S MARKETPLACE
      • OPTICS ALLEY
      • POETRY NIGHT
      • FEATHER TO FRAME ART SHOW
      • BIRD TRIVIA NIGHT
      • BIRD TATTOO CONTEST
    • SUMMARY SCHEDULE
    • KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
    • Field Trips >
      • GUIDED VAN TRIPS
      • YOU DRIVE WE LEAD
      • BIRD OUTINGS AND NIGHT HIKES
      • BIRDING WITH THE STARS
      • BIRDING ON THE WATER
      • eBIRD CHECKLISTS
    • Beginning Workshops
    • SPOTLIGHT PRESENTATIONS
    • GENERAL WORKSHOPS
    • PHOTOGRAPHY & OPTICS WORKSHOPS
    • Art Workshops
    • World Birding Travel Talks
  • Area Info
    • BIRDING LOCATIONS
    • LODGING
    • DINING & SPIRITS
    • SHOPPING AND SERVICES
    • HOSPITALS AND PHARMACIES
    • KENN KAUFMAN'S BIRDING PREDICTIONS
    • BSBO's Bird Migration Profiles
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2023 Biggest Week in American Birding! It was absolutely aMAYzing! We hope you'll save the dates for 2024 (May 3-12) and come back to go birding with us again!

Subscribe to the Biggest Week eNews for all the latest updates  including when the schedule for 2024 will be posted, how to apply to be a vendor in the Birders Marketplace, registration information, and more!

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There's still time to buy a shirt from the 2023 Biggest Week!

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With the Black Swamp Bird Observatory Swamp Shop under renovation, a Bonfire campaign has been created for this year's Biggest Week t-shirts. The design specific to the 2023 festival - Birding at its Best - was created by Paul Riss of BRDR BATL.
CLICK HERE>>> for the Birding at its Best shirt
CLICK HERE>>> for The Biggest Week logo shirt

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Special thanks to our 2023 co-hosts!

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The 2023 Biggest Week Visitors' Guide

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Produced by Black Swamp Bird Observatory in collaboration with our wonderful partners at The Press Newspapers, this 88-page magazine (there's so much good stuff we had to up the page number this year!), is packed with information about the festival, features on the great work of regional partners like Trust for Public Land, The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Division of Wildlife, Greater Port Clinton Area Arts Council, American Birding Association, important bird conservation topics from partners like American Bird Conservancy and Birds & Beans Coffee, warbler identification, a section fun places to visit in northwest Ohio created by our partners at Shores & Islands Ohio and Destination Toledo, and MUCH MORE!

Look for it on newsstands throughout NW Ohio, or flip through the beautiful digital version (with hyperlinks to all websites!) on the Biggest Week website, here >>> 


Cover design by Ryan Jacob

The schedule for the 2023 Biggest Week In American Birding has posted! We have a great array of identification, conservation, and birding workshops along with other great programs, field trips, outings, and more!

CLICK HERE to view the schedule >>
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2023 Festival Keynotes 

Alyssa Bardy - Indigenous People and Birds
Laura Erickson - Plants to Feed the Birds
Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch - Flycatchers

Featured Banquet Speaker - Erro Lehnert - California Condors 

David Lindo
- The Urban Birder
Kevin Loughlin and John Kricher - Galapagos Islands: Darwin's Smoking Gun
Holly Merker - Ornitherapy
Mark Shieldcastle - The History of Magee Marsh
Scott Whittle - How Birders and Technology Will Save Wildlife

Major Support for the
2023 Biggest Week Was Provided By

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Thank you to our 2023 Sponsors!

Kirtland's Warbler Sponsors​

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Blackburnian Warbler Sponsors

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Ohio  |  Michigan

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Cape May Warbler Sponsors​

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Magnolia Warbler ​Sponsors

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Yellow Warbler Sponsors 

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Village of Oak Harbor

Myrtle Warbler Sponsors 

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Port Clinton, OH | Fremont, OH


Tour Company Partners

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A Birding Festival in Northwest Ohio: "The Warbler Capital of the World"
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