2023 OOS Spring Meeting
When: May 13th, 2023
Where: Bartlesville, OK (various locations)
Agenda:
Friday evening, May 12:
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6:30-8:30 pm. Come and Go Meet and Greet and Wingspan Games at Bartlesville Hilton Garden Inn (205 SW Frank Phillips Blvd, Bartlesville).
Saturday, May 13:
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6:45 am. Meet at Hilton Garden Inn for Pathfinder Field Trip Departure -OR- Plan to meet group at Pathfinder at 7 am. CLICK HERE FOR MAP LINK.
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7:00 am. Field trip to Pathfinder along the Caney River (trip leaders: Jimmy Woodard, Dan Reinking and Mark Peterson).
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7:30 to 10:00 am. Demonstration of mist netting and banding birds at Pathfinder (leader Joe Gryzbowski), come and go event. **If you plan on attending the Sutton Center, DO NOT handle any birds**.
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Sutton Center Activities: Masked Bobwhite Breeding Program Visits (two times to choose from, each limited to 30 participants). **Anyone who handles birds during the bird banding program is not permitted to participate in the Masked Bobwhite visit due to risk of Avian Influenza, no exceptions**. Please use the links below to register. (Sutton Center, 393636 Gap Rd. Ochelata, OK 74051).
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10:00 am start sign up: https://suttoncenter.app.neoncrm.com/eventReg.jsp?event=18&
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2:00 pm start sign up: https://suttoncenter.app.neoncrm.com/eventReg.jsp?event=23&
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10:00 am Sutton Center Children's activities: learning about birds, seeing birds at close range, and learning to use binoculars are among the available activities.
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Lunch is on your own.
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1:00-2:15 pm or 2:15-3:30 pm. Story telling and origami activities for ages 4 through adulthood. At Bartlesville Public Library (600 S Johnstone Ave, Bartlesville), limit 20 participants. Activities lead by Mae Dean Erb, Cherokee citizen.
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3:30-5:00 pm. Oklahoma Ornithological Society Board Meeting (Bartlesville Public Library, all welcome)
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6:00-8:00 pm. Dinner and Stories from nationally recognized Cherokee citizen Robert Lewis at Crossing 2nd (215 E 2nd, Bartlesville).
All activities are free except the dinner event on Saturday evening.
Meal Cost: $25 for individuals, $40 for families (cost includes meal on Saturday Evening).
Click below to register:
2023 OOS Membership Drive
As the calendar flips to 2023 it is time to renew your Oklahoma Ornithological Society Membership.
Student memberships start at $16, regular memberships at $26 and family memberships at $35. Wanna go big? A Lifetime Membership is $500.
Welcome!
Since 1951, the OOS has served as a place where recreational birders and academics interact to increase appreciation and conservation of wild birds in the Sooner State. The OOS sponsors field trips, semiannual meetings with invited guest speakers, a quarterly newsletter (The Scissortail), and a quarterly peer-reviewed state journal (The Bulletin of the Oklahoma Ornithological Society).
Newsletter/Blog now online!
Please view our new blog/newsletter for articles:
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Save the Date: Fall OOS meeting Nov 5th:
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New species of meadowlark distinguished: Is it present in Oklahoma????
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The Summer issue of The Scissortail is now online and hitting mailboxes soon.
