The Mega Bowl is a fun and friendly activity that celebrates birds, birders, and birding! Participants go birding alone or in small groups in the CT county of their choice, trying to observe as many species as they can. Birders are awarded points for seeing each species observed, with a range of 1 point for … Read more
Make your Big January 2021 Birding Count for the CT Bird Atlas. Here are the rules for participating in the Big January 2021 COA/CT Bird Atlas Late Winter Surveys competition. Points are scored by performing 1-hour winter surveys in specified blocks in accord with the protocol described here:http://www.ctbirdatlas.org/Surveys_winter_timed.htm The survey period is January 1 through … Read more
Birders, Thankfully 2020 is winding down and we are on the threshold of a new year. We can only hope 2021 will be better in every way! Better than hope however is action. In years past COA has encouraged Connecticut birders to go out during the month of January and find as many avian species … Read more
The deadline for 2021 Mini-Grant applications is midnight on January 15th. The grants in amounts of up to $1,000.00 fund projects that “benefit Connecticut’s birds.” Successful projects have included osprey nest platforms and habitat improvements using native, bird friendly plants. Grants are typically awarded at our COA annual meeting in March. Full details and applications … Read more
121st Annual National Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count – Connecticut 2020-2021 For a PDF of the 2020-2021 Christmas Bird Count schedule, click here. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2020: Storrs, CT (CTST) Compiler: Steve Morytko, 288 Varga Road, Ashford, CT 06278 smorytko@yahoo.com (M) 860-680-5728 (Natchaug Ornithological Society) SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2020: New Haven, CT (CTNH) Compiler: Chris Loscalzo, 67 … Read more
The following is an excerpt from an OCTOBER 30, 2020 message BY CHRIS ELPHICK Winter is here [At our] third annual volunteer appreciation event, [we showed] preliminary results and provide[d] more guidance on how to use the web site. We were not able to record the event, but you can review the presentation sides here and we … Read more
The COA Board of Directors met electronically on March 21, 2020, in lieu of the annual meeting that we would have held at Middlesex Community College on the same day if not for the coronavirus outbreak that has impacted our local community and the world. We voted in the new slate of officers and board … Read more
The COA Gull Workshop, originally scheduled for Sunday, March 22, 2020, has been cancelled. Thank you for your understanding.
The COA Annual Meeting, scheduled for Saturday, March 21, 2020 has been cancelled. Middlesex Community College has withdrawn its invitation to us to hold our meeting at their hall. This is in keeping with the current recommendations restricting the size of any gathering of people in one location to < 100 individuals in an effort … Read more
Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 8:00 am COA Gull Workshop Stratford Point, Stratford Join us as we look for and learn about the gulls of Connecticut. Nick Bonomo will share his considerable knowledge about how to identify members of this extraordinarily challenging group of birds. We’ll have a sit down session where we’ll go … Read more