Author: ivor
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Doug McRae
Thank you very much for sponsoring me in the Baillie Birdathon this year. It is a great honour and pleasure to have been asked by OFO to be the guest birder for 2014. While there are lots of potential routes to try and generate a big list, I stayed with my heart and focused my…
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Clive Goodwin
We both take great pleasure in being able to nominate Clive Goodwin for the 2014 OFO Distinguished Ornithologist Award. Clive has been a leader in Ontario field ornithology and conservation for nearly our entire lifetime and his selection as a recipient of this award is certainly well deserved. Clive was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England,…
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2014 Certificates
Maris Apse for his many years of fundraising for the Baillie Birdathon on behalf of OFO. Patrick Baichoo for cordially hosting many people to view the Lark Sparrow in Fort Erie. Michel Gagnier and Countryside Canners Co. Limited for their hospitality to birders coming to view shorebirds on the wet field at the back of…
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Jeff and Richard Skevington, James Holdsworth and Frank Pinilla
2 June 2013 James Holdsworth, Frank Pinilla, Richard Skevington and I were honoured to be the Ontario Field Ornithologists’ celebrity birders in this year’s birdathon. With your help, about $3000 was raised. Twenty-five percent of this goes to support the OFO and the rest goes to Bird Studies Canada to support their programs. We decided…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…