Kirtland Bird Club

05/31/2026

Thanks to everybody who joined our field trip to Frohring Meadows! Our group of 29 members and friends tallied close to 50 species, including Bobolink, Swamp Sparrow, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, and Wild Turkey! 🦃

05/30/2026

Add some native plants to your yard this weekend! 🌱

What are your plans this Saturday? Join us in Cleveland Heights for an incredible variety of native plants from 4 different growers!

The weather's looking gorgeous, and you won't find nicer people anywhere 🌞 Thank you to Heights Native Pollinator Pathway for organizing!

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Native Plant Sale

Saturday, May 30, 2026
10 am - 2 pm
Forest Hill Presbyterian Church
3031 Monticello Blvd, Cleveland Heights

Spring for a plant sale featuring 4 regional native plant providers!

05/21/2026

Join us at Frohring Meadows on Saturday, May 30th for a chance to see rails, shorebirds, and grassland birds!

Learn more and register: https://givebutter.com/KBCMay26Walk2

05/11/2026

Are you at The Biggest Week In American Birding? There are still a few spots for our Magee Marsh field trip tomorrow!

Register here:

May 2026 Field Trip

05/08/2026

05/04/2026

Join us this Wednesday for our last spring speaker meeting, featuring Killian Sullivan, American Birding Association's 2025 Young Birder of the Year! Killian’s story shows how birding is more than a hobby – it is a shared adventure where every birder writes their own heroic story.

Register here: https://givebutter.com/KBCMay26Talk

04/17/2026

Got warbler neck? Remember to keep an eye out for ground foraging warblers like this bobbing Louisiana Waterthrush!

04/15/2026

Enjoy spring migration by using this helpful app to identify birds by their songs.

Blackburnian Warbler by Alicia Amber / Macaulay Library. Originally published in the Summer 2021 issue of Living Bird magazine. Updated May 2024. It’s an almost universal feeling: the thrill of hearing a mysterious new bird song. And it's usually followed up by the question: What was that bird

04/14/2026

What a thrill to see Christian Cooper speak tonight! Birding has a positive impact on each of us and our planet, and we must make it accessible to folks from all walks of life. Birding is for all!

Can you guess the bird in the second picture? 😉

Thanks to Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities for bringing Christian to Cleveland!

04/10/2026

Check out this video featuring our 2025 Ohio Avian Project Initiative recipient Rachel Mansfield, whose research project is focused on detecting secretive marsh birds through the use of autonomous recording units (ARUs)!

H2Ohio Marshbird Monitoring Program – A Partnership between Audubon Great Lakes, Ohio State University, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The H2O...