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Our
speaker lineup:
Ethan Kistler, Brad Wilkinson, Bret
McCarty, Jacob Bowman
MC - Ben Thornton, Auriel Van Der Laar,
Jared Merriman,
& Keynote - Hope Batcheller |
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Saturday
morning field trip to Funk Bottoms
Wildlife Area |
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Jim
McCormac, Avian Education Specialist for
the Ohio Department of
Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife
with Hope Batcheller,
the conference keynote speaker |
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Field trip
participants waiting for their group
assignments. |
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The
conference was held in the Chestnut
Ridge Elementary School gymnasium. |
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Our Master
of Ceremony, Ben Thornton, introducing
our first presenter. |
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Chasing Beeps: Radio
telemetry in rail research,
presented by Auriel Van
Der Laar |
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Winter Birds on the North
Coast,
presented by
Bret McCarty |
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Birds for Bucks:
Ecotourism and the Traveling Birder,
presented by
Jared Merriman |
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Birding Killbuck Marsh: A
birder and his bicycle
presented
by Jacob Bowman |
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How Ecotourism is
Protecting the Tropics,
presented by Brad Wilkinson |
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How Ecotourism is
Protecting the Tropics,
presented by Ethan
Kistler |
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Our Keynote: Hope Batcheller,
from Petersburgh, New York
presenting
"Fledglings:
Researching the Unknown" |
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Steve
Carbol, ABA's Education Director & Kenn
Kaufman, birder & author extraordinaire,
enjoying the young birder presentations. |
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Bill
Thompson III, Bird Watcher's Digest
Editor, &
Robert Hershberger owner of Time &
Optics
enjoying the conference presentations. |
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Kenn
Kaufman & Lukas Padegimas presenting the
answers to Kenn's Bird Quiz. |
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The OYBC
Youth Advisory Panel (YAP) assisting Kim
Kaufman,
BSBO's Acting Executive Director, with
handing out the door prizes. |
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Kim & Kenn
Kaufman with closing remarks. |
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Sunday
morning's digiscoping field trip started
out a little foggy. |
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The fog
gave all of us a chance to learn
digiscoping techniques
from an expert, Leica Sport Optics
Specialist, Jeff Bouton. |
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OYBC wished to thank our
conference
sponsors
and all our supporters!
We could not have done this without you!
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