“We will put your money to good use!” – Bil Kerrigan, Chair, OOS Conservation Committee”
The Conservation Committee of the Ohio Ornithological Society is dedicated to helping people like you help birds. Here are just a few of the projects we have supported in the last few years with dollars from OOS memberships and other donations:
- Kestrel and Tree Swallow next boxes on the Reclaimed Surface-mined lands around The Wilds
- A high-tech Motus wildlife tracking station along Lake Erie
- Support for a volunteer day to remove invasive plants from important bird habitat in a Preble County Park.
- Supplies for an ongoing Herring Gull banding project on Lake Erie.
- Purple Martin nesting gourds in Delaware County.
- Construction of Chimney Swift Towers in Lorain, Cuyahoga, and Muskingum
County - Prothonotary Warbler Research at the Black Swamp Bird Observatory
All OOS officers and committee members donate their time, and the groups we support depend upon volunteers to carry out their projects. Just last weekend I visited volunteer members of the Friends of Dillon State Park, who were busy constructing a Chimney Swift Tower they will install on
park grounds in the coming months. The OOS Conservation Committee covered the costs of the supplies; all other expenses will be covered by the volunteers and Park staff. Every penny you give goes directly to helping the birds of Ohio.
Please consider a donation to the OOS Conservation Fund, the Youth Education Fund, the General Education Fund, or the Doreene Linzell Fund
