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Introducing: the official Biggest Week App!
In an effort to continue to increase customer service for all of our participants, we're offering a Biggest Week event app that's new for 2024! This app will enable participants to check their agenda, view events, receive important notifications, and more! Stay tuned for more information regarding this important upgrade. We are polishing up finishing touches on this new product, so please be patient with us! We will be sending a stand-alone message with more information on the app soon! |
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Friday, May 3:
10 a.m. - Vortex 1 p.m. - Swarovski Saturday, May 4: 10 a.m. - Celestron 1 p.m. - Bushnell Sunday, May 5: 10 a.m. - Hawke 1 p.m. - Kowa Monday, May 6: 10 a.m. - Zeiss 1 p.m. - Vortex Tuesday, May 7: 10 a.m. - Leica 1 p.m. - Vanguard |
Wednesday, May 8:
10 a.m. - Bushnell 1 p.m. - Zeiss Thursday, May 9: 10 a.m. - Leica 1 p.m. - Kowa Friday, May 10: 10 a.m. - OM System 1 p.m. - Swarovski Saturday, May 11: 10 a.m. - Hawke 1 p.m. - Zeiss |
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Black Swamp Bird Observatory is thrilled to offer a series of accessible field trips during the Biggest Week In American Birding. These field trips will move at the speed of the slowest birder to ensure no one is left behind. Accessible bathrooms will be available at each site. Twenty binoculars will be available for use. We will have skilled leaders for these trips who are disabled, including one who is totally blind and one who uses a manual wheelchair.
Click the button below to learn more and to register. 
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Every year, Black Swamp Bird Observatory hosts the Ohio Young Birders Club Annual Conference. The event offers incredible presentations created and presented by the students. The creativity, effort, and content in these presentations are too impressive not to share with all of you attending The Biggest Week In American Birding! Click below to learn more about the Ohio Young Birders Club (OYBC).
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Based on the book by
Kenn Kaufman
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The Biggest Week In American Birding proud to feature the World Premiere performance of ‘A Season on the Wind’, a cinematic concert based on Kenn Kaufman’s inspiring ode to migratory birds. A musical and visual journey from the shores of Lake Erie across the Americas, this 60-minute performance stars three internationally acclaimed musicians, Simone Slattery (violin), Majel Connery (vocals) and Anthony Albrecht (cello). Created by the Bowerbird Collective, an award-winning Australian-based organization making art for nature, at the invitation of Black Swamp Bird Observatory and Kenn Kaufman himself, this unforgettable event will sell out quickly.
Date: Friday, May 10
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Location: Maumee Bay Lodge & Conference Center Ballroom Cost: $20 per person 
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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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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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