Birdwatching in Ohio
Birding contacts and birdwatching information
Local Birdingpal Contacts
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Local Birdwatchers Please note that most Birdingpals are serious birdwatchers. It is a privilege to contact them, and your message should reflect it. A local Pal does not get paid, but should he/she offer to take you out birding, using their own vehicle, it would be courteous to pay for the fuel. A lunch and/or a small gift would also be appropriate, something as simple as a souvenir of your country, or a pin from your local birding club. | ||||||
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| C | McClaugherty | Alliance | Anytime | English |
| I live in northeastern Ohio. We have a nice number of parks and public lands available for birding. My focus area is the Allegheny Plateau, particulary the region near the southern extent of the last glaciation. I am an ecology professor at Mount Union College in Alliance and director of their field station. | ||||||
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| J | Duerr | Athens | Anytime | English |
| My husband and I are avid birders and Ohio Breeding Bird atlases, living in the lovely wooded Appalachian foothills of southeast Ohio. | ||||||
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| T | Shively | Bellefontaine | Weekend | |
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| J | McMahon | Chillicothe | Anytime | |
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| B | Foppe | Cincinnati/Clermont County | Anytime | |
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| S | Bobonick | Cincinnati | Weekend | English some French/Spanish |
| We have a number of good birding sites in the Cincinnati area. I am an Aeronautical Engineer and I grew up in Connecticut, where I began birding at age 14. I have travelled throughout the US and have an ABA area life list of 679 species. I have birded several countries in South America, Trinidad and Tobago, France and England, a bit in Kenya and Australia and Singapore/Malaysia. | ||||||
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| D | Morse Jr. | Clermont County | Weekend | |
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| L | Burianek | Colombus | Weekend | English |
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| T | Tree | Colombus | Anytime | |
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| C | Kendall | Colombus | Weekend | English |
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| D | Bradley | Colombus | Weekend | English |
| I am a birdwatcher of average ability but would be excited to show someone around and do my best to find them their target species. I have 14 acres that attract a lot of great birds as well as live close to some nice parks. | ||||||
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| A | Boone | Colombus | Anytime | English/French German |
| I work for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas and am very familiar with birding in Ohio. I have been birding since childhood and would be more than happy to show visiting birders around if I can manage the time. Any season of year is a good time for birding in this state. | ||||||
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| A | Coonrod | Colombus | Weekend | English/Spanish |
| Early May great wood warbler viewing. | ||||||
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| M | Howden | Colombus | Anytime | English/French |
| Birder for about 20 yrs., gaining in enthusiasm as the years go by. Central Ohio is well situated to welcome avian visitors from north and south as well as the occasional western species. | ||||||
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| J | Espedal | Kettering, Dayton | Anytime | English/Korean French |
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| R | Rogers | Galloway | Anytime | |
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| R | Schieltz | Greenville | Weekend | English some German |
| We don't have any IBA's, but have woodland and agricultural areas. We have 11 county parks with wetlands, wooded areas, and prairies. There are gravel pits and peat bogs that are privately owned. We have several serious birders who are always on the lookout for the rarer species. Some found in past 3 years around Greenville were Ohio's first nesting pair of Eurasian Collared doves, Wilson's Phalarope in migrations, a nesting Bell's vireo.I am a volunteer for the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas II that is in its third year and am a member of the Ohio Ornithological Society and our local Darke County Birders. I know many of the common bird songs and calls, but am still working on the warblers and others. I am a retired special ed. teacher and have lived in Darke County most of my life. I have traveled to 49 states and most of the Canadian provinces and several European countries. | ||||||
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| K | Zeleznik | Macedonia | Weekend | |
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| P | Sherwood | Sandusky | Anytime | |
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| C | Beckman | Spring Valley | Anytime | English |
| Spring Valley is located in SW Ohio, between Cincinnati and Dayton. | ||||||
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| T | Stahl | Vermilion | Anytime | |
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| E | Bruder | Westlake | Weekend | English |
| West side of Cleveland. Familiar with all the major hot spots in NE Ohio and along the Lake Erie shore to Toledo. 20+ years of birding experience and I'm out in the field nearly every weekend. | ||||||
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| T | Glassburner | Windsor | Weekend | |
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| R | King | Wooster | Anytime | English |
| Rich birding area. From the shores of Lake Erie to inland lakes, marshes and open farming area. We live in an area near the largest Amish enclave in the world which is a mixture of farms, small towns and hills. We are on the edges of two migration flyways so we are bird rich in the spring with ducks, geese, and wood warblers as well as many other species. We have over 300 species of birds. I am a semi retired educator. | ||||||
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Local Information
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| Name | Description
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| Ohio Ornithological Society | Club |
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| Ohio Audubon Society | Club |
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| Audubon Society of Ohio(Cincinnati) | Club |
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| Columbus Audubon Society | Club |
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| Greater Akron Audubon Society | Club |
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| Greater Mohican Audubon Society | Club |
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| Audubon Miami Valley Society | Club |
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| Firelands Audubon Society, Sandusky | Club |
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| Victor W. Fazio III | Latest Sights |
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| Black Swamp Bird Observatory | Banding |
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| Lake Milton Raptor Education Center | Raptor Watch |
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| Ned Keller's | Birding in Cincinnati |
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| Dick & Jean Hoffman's | Cleveland Area |
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| Birding Hotspots around the world | Sites |
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| Breeding Bird | Atlas |
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| Ohio Lepidopterists | Butterflies |
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| Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | Ohio |
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| Local weather | Yahoo |
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| Electronic maps | MapQuest |
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| Find lowest prices for field guides, books, maps etc. | |
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| Printable bird check list | |
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| Trip Reports from Ohio |
Last update 26/06/2009