BIGGEST WEEK IN AMERICAN BIRDING
When: May 4 - 13, 2012
Location: (Map It) Black Swamp Bird Observatory, Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge, and Magee Marsh Wildlife Area, Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449. Festival Headquarters: Maumee Bay Lodge & Conference Center at 1750 State Park Road in Oregon, OH 43616
Phone: 419-898-4070
Email: biggestweek@bsbo.org
This 10-day
event is planned at the peak of spring warbler migration in the Lake Erie Marsh
Region of Northwest Ohio. The "Biggest Week" will be jam-packed with
workshops, warblers, free guided walks, warblers, half-day trips, keynote
speakers, island birding trips, and more warblers.
“The
Warbler Capital of the World” features incredible views of warblers and other
many other migrating songbirds, guided trips to area birding hotspots and
private lands, Lake Erie Island birding trips, bird identification workshops,
evening keynotes and socials featuring some of the regions wonderful food, wine,
and music, and much more!
The festival is headquartered at Maumee Bay Lodge & Conference Center on the
shores of Lake Erie in Oregon, Ohio. The Lodge is approximately ten miles east
of downtown Toledo, Ohio and fifteen miles west of Black Swamp Bird Observatory,
in Oak Harbor, Ohio. The Biggest Week is hosted by Black Swamp Bird Observatory,
Maumee Bay Lodge & Conference Center, Destination Toledo, and Lake Erie Shores &
Islands, and made possible by our many sponsors.
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