OFO – Next Generation

Author: ivor

  • John McCracken

    Jon McCracken is a modest, low-key kind of person, who surely does not think of himself as a “Distinguished Ornithologist.” Yet, there is scarcely a person more immersed in learning about Ontario and Canada’s birds, or more deeply involved in working for their welfare. People who don’t know Jon personally are nonetheless very likely to…

  • 2013 Certificates

    Mike Burrell for his extensive work and support to ebird and the OBRC, along with streamlining operations between the two groups in Ontario. Chris Escott for his committed effort to complete a set of best practices for the OFO for use by future executive. Jason Purssell for not using his boat while a pair of…

  • John Cartwright

    With great spring weather promised over the long week-end, I looked forward to doing my Birdathon where I had started birding in the late 1940s, in the Kingston area as a member of one of the teams that take part in the Kingston Field Naturalists’ annual spring round-up. Someone reminded us of how our birding…

  • Jim Richards

    Jim was born and raised in Oshawa, and he first took an interest in nature at age 7. At age 10, he took up the hobby of collecting birds’ eggs. By his early teens, Jim was hooked on birding and he was issued a collecting permit by the Canadian Wildlife Service in 1964 and a…

  • 2012 Certificates

    Diane Henderson for her many years of meticulous maintenance of the OFO archives. Kevin and Sharon Hockley for the construction and donation of two Pileated Woodpecker heads for the raffle people to wear at the annual convention. Peter Mladen for hosting birders in his back yard during the stay of a vagrant White-winged Dove in…

  • Mike Cadman

    Saturday, 20 May, 2011 The 2011 OFO Birdathon team (myself, Chris Earley, Paul Grant, Larry Staniforth, and Bryan Wyatt) did our Birdathon in Wellington County on May 20. Our plan was to make an assault on the 147 species Big Day record for the county, obtained on a historic day in 1988. Conditions seemed ripe.…

  • David Brewer

    David Brewer began birding about the age of 12 in England. He obtained his first bird banding permit from the British Trust for Ornithology at age 17 and has held a Canadian banding permit since 1971. He became an authority on molts, plumages and identification. David was a founding life member of OFO in 1982.…

  • 2011 Certificates

    Mark Cranford for his many years of careful attention to the OFO listserv ONTBIRDS and his recent transfer of the site to a new host. The Staff of Darlington Nuclear Generating Station for organizing the successful viewing of the Willow Ptarmigan on 12 June 2011. Jayne and Sean Douglas, Ridge Road Estate Winery for their…

  • Margaret Bain

    Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 It started off well – brilliant stars and a nearly full moon, a warm, clear night, and a northbound flight of thrushes as I waited in my driveway at 2.30am for the others (no, we didn’t start at midnight). To my ears, most of the thrushes were Swainson’s and Veerys but…

  • Erica Dunn and David Hussell

    David Hussell and Erica Dunn, husband and wife, began their academic careers in ornithology as graduate students at the University of Michigan in the 1960s. David founded Long Point Bird Observatory in 1960 and Thunder Cape Bird Observatory in 1991. David’s study of breeding Tree Swallows is one of the longest running in North America.…