Time is Running Out - Sign Up for Rally for Rails Now!
You have only until Sep 15 to sign up for this year’s Rally for Rails Conference.
Lakeside, Ohio will be the gathering grounds on October 1, 2016 for birdwatchers keen on rails and wanting to learn more about the area’s most productive wetlands. Featured speakers will include experts from Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO), Winous Point Marsh Conservancy and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge and Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
Saturday evening the Ohio Ornithological Society will have their Annual Banquet. Our keynote speaker is an inspiring young woman, Auriel Fournier, a PhD Candidate with the Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Arkansas. Auriel is no stranger to us; she grew up in North-west Ohio and was active in Ohio Young Birders at BSBO. She returns annually to lead field trips for Biggest Week in American Birding and collaborates with local wildlife biologists studying rails.
Field trips to biological hot-spots for birding and bird conservation are available on Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 1-2). Featured locations on Saturday will be Meadowbrook Marsh and Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. Sunday trips will be hosted by numerous conservation agencies, including The Nature Conservancy, Black Swamp Bird Observatory, Ohio Wetlands Association, The Environmental Protection Agency and other local groups.
-Registration for the Rally for Rails and Annual Banquet is now available at www.ohiobirds.org
-Pre-Rally Wetland Workshop (Friday Sept. 30 offered by Flora-Quest. See www.flora-quest.com
Auriel is passionate about wetlands, birds and trying to understand their migration while making the conservation and scientific communities more diverse.
Press Release Contact Name: Judy Kolo-Rose
Press Release Contact Email: [email protected]
Organization Name: Ohio Ornithological Society
Website or Link: ohiobirds.org