Category: Events
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2025 Convention Evening Programs – Sarnia
Birds & Beers: Friday evening September 19, 2025 ——————————————————— Saturday Evening September 20, 2025 Annual Meeting, Distinguished Ornithologist and Speakers Both Evenings Are Live streamed to the Northern Convention at Hilliardton Marsh Details for Friday & Saturday Evening Programs – Click Here
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2025 Convention Where to Stay – Sarnia
Days Inn Sarnia – Registration Deadline August 1, 2025 505 Harbour Road Sarnia, ON N7T 5R8 Telephone: 519-337-5434 King $105.00 per night; Taxes Extra CUT OFF DATE: August 1, 2025 Complimentary Hot Breakfast included starting at 6AM NOTE: Please quote “Ontario Field Ornithologists” when booking. Four Points by Sheraton Sarnia – Registration Deadline August 18,…
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2025 Annual Convention – Sept. 19-21
Thank You to All for a Great Event!! Our Southern Convention will be held in Sarnia at the Dante Club, 1330 London Rd., Sarnia, ON, Canada Sarnia Location Only: See Evening Programs for Itinerary All members are able to register a guest. For non-members that aren’t guests, please email: ssuess@rogers.com if you would like to attend the…
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Bird of the Year 2025
Congratulations to Jenny Boulger! Jenny’s beautiful artwork showcasing the summer and winter plumages of the Long-tailed duck gained the most votes in this year’s competition and becomes OFO’s 2025 logo. You can purchase a variety of cool swag featuring the new logo at the OFO Redbubble store. Keep scrolling to see the other submissions. Thank…
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Birding With Pride
Join the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) at Point Pelee National Park on May 4th for the second annual Birding With Pride event open house during the Festival of Birds! Join us at the North West Beach pavilion for refreshments and to meet fellow members of the birding community, learn more about OFO, and join guided…
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Bird of the Year – Voting (closed)
Voting is now closed.
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Bird of the Year – Artwork Contest (closed)
Submit your artwork displaying the Bird of the Year as the OFO logo for the chance to have it featured as the logo for a year, a $500 prize and publicized in OFO News and on the website. Submission rules:
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Norfolk County Big Day
By: Rowan Keunen ▪ Liam Thorne ▪ Piper Smith ▪ Max Segler On May 21, the four of us met up at Coppen’s Tract, where we spent a short evening sleeping in our cars at the roadside. Our alarms were set for 1:50 a.m. so that we could get an early start looking for owls…
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Welcome to OFO’s Celebrity Birders for 2023!
Rowan Keunen, Max Segler, Piper Smith and Liam Thorne will be participating in the 2023 Birds Canada Birdathon to raise funds for OFO’s Young Birders Program and to support bird research and conservation through Birds Canada. The OFO Big Day Birdathon will be taking place this year on May 22. Our celebrity young birders have…
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Tom Hince, Paul Pratt and Bruce Di Labio
OFO’s Celebrity Birders Big Sit Birdathon Summary 2019 By Bruce Di Labio Tom Hince, Paul Pratt, and I had lots of fun on our second annual Big Sit fundraiser for the Ontario Field Ornithologists May 11, 2019. We used the same location as last year, west side of the tip of Point Pelee National Park.…