DECEMBER MEETING – KENTUCKY NATURE PRESERVES
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The largest Birdathon grant made by the Beckham Bird Club this year went to the Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission for habitat preservation at the Bouteloua Barrens State Nature Preserve in Lincoln County, which protects some of the last remaining grassland of its type in Kentucky. Hear from Nature Preserves Commission staff as they discuss this type of habitat and the work they are doing to preserve it and other dwindling grassland habitats in the Central Bluegrass region of the state.
Join us on Tuesday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m. at St.Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2822 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206. Please enter by way of the back door near the parking lot to find out how our Birdathon money is being spent. |
2019 BBC BIRDATHON
DISTRIBUTION OF THE 2019 BIRDATHON DONATIONS
The BBC Board at their last meeting distributed $20,000 to eight birdathon grant recipients. A special thanks to all who contributed to this record breaking birdathon of $19,815.17. The board donated the rest in order to round off the total. The recipients and the amount they received are:
Jefferson Memorial Forest - $1000
Kentucky Resources Council, Inc. - $2500
Kentucky Conservation Committee - $2500
Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky, Inc. - $3500
Creasy Mahan Nature Preserve - $1500
Kentucky Natural Lands Trust - $2500
Louisville Nature Center - $1500
Kentucky Nature Preserves - $5000
DISTRIBUTION OF THE 2019 BIRDATHON DONATIONS
The BBC Board at their last meeting distributed $20,000 to eight birdathon grant recipients. A special thanks to all who contributed to this record breaking birdathon of $19,815.17. The board donated the rest in order to round off the total. The recipients and the amount they received are:
Jefferson Memorial Forest - $1000
Kentucky Resources Council, Inc. - $2500
Kentucky Conservation Committee - $2500
Raptor Rehabilitation of Kentucky, Inc. - $3500
Creasy Mahan Nature Preserve - $1500
Kentucky Natural Lands Trust - $2500
Louisville Nature Center - $1500
Kentucky Nature Preserves - $5000
Birder's Bucket List for 2019
- Come to a BBC meeting if you have never been to one.
- Join in on a field trip if you have never been to one.
- Make plans to go to the March Dinner Meeting at Big Springs Country Club on Tuesday, March 14.
- Join the Kentucky Ornithological Society (KOS).
- Go to one of the KOS weekends in April or September.
- Plan a trip to Magee Marsh in Ohio around the first two weeks of May.
- Donate to the BBC Birdathon.
- Submit your bird list to ebird. It is so easy.
- Subscribe to birdKY
- Take a child birding.
- Keep your cat indoors and encourage others to as well.
- Buy bird friendly (certified shade-grown) coffee.
- Plant native species in your yard.
- Donate your old/unused binoculars and scopes to nature centers, school groups interested in birding.