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That's right! The Howard County Bird Club has
contributed nearly $67,000 to other organizations to
help save habitat—and your seed purchases
and contributions have made it possible. Money
from the seed sale and contributions has gone to
local, state, national, and international
organizations to benefit bird habitat and studies
that protect the ecosystems of which birds are a
part.
Among major donations have been $6000 for
The Nature Conservancy’s projects and
$5300 for the Maryland Ornithological
Society's Breeding Bird Atlas. More than
$11,000 went to the Monteverde Cloud Forest
(Costa Rica), Sierra de las Minas (Guatemala), and
the Bladen Mountains Nature Reserve (Belize). In
1994 the Bird Club sent $2500 to Cerro San
Gil Ecological Reserve (CSGER, on the Atlantic
coast of Guatemala). That ecological reserve is a
wintering ground for neotropical migrants--the
warblers and other birds that come to Maryland each
year to nest. In 1995 the Bird Club responded to
the challenge grant of the Patuxent Bird Club and
sent another $1000 to CSGER. In 1996 the
Board voted to send $1000 to CSGER and
$750 for habitat preservation in Maryland
(used by The Nature Conservancy toward the Little
Patuxent Oxbow Sanctuary). In 1997, the Bird Club
contributed $2000 to Belt Woods Natural
Environmental Area. $2500 more for Howard
Bird Club’s 25th Anniversary Special Habitat
Project in 1999 was sent to Belt Woods and CSGER.
For 1999 there was a grant of $1500
Mexico’s “River of Raptors”
(which was doubled by the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation). In 2000 the Club sent
$1250 for the “Old Growth Forest
Project” at Frostburg University, and in 2001
the Bird Club contributed $1100 to the
Middle Patuxent Environmental Area in Howard County
to create one acre of warm-season grassland in the
memorial area to be called the “John Clegg
Meadow.” In 2002 it was $2200 for the
El Chorogo Refuge in Panama, a wintering area for
neotropicals recommended by the American Bird
Conservancy. For 2003 there was a grant of
$1500 to Maryland "Marshes to Mountains"
campaign. In 2004 it was $2000 for Sierra de
Bahoruco on the Dominican Republic as recommended
by the American Bird Conservancy. For 2005 there
was a grant of $1200 to Middle Patuxent
Environmental Area (MPEA) for stream buffer
planting and Purple Martin nests plus (for the
second year) a grant to All Creatures Great and
Small rehabilitators. In 2006 we
contributed $2000 to Foundation ProAves
(protection of Cerulean Warbler in Colombia, and
$100 each for Baltimore Checkerspot restoration and
All Creatures Great and Small. For 2007
there was a grant of $645 for the MOS
Ecuador Rainforest challenge, $410 for the
MPEA Woodcock Spring Seep, and a total of
$500 to All Creatures Great and
Small, Mount Pleasant, and the Baltimore
Checkerspot restoration. The proceeds from the 2007
seed sale were distributed in 2008: $1300 to
Delaware Ornithological Society to help the Red
Knot and a total of $450 to All
Creatures Great and Small and Baltimore
Checkerspot restoration. Our fund raiser in
2009 raised $1800 for American Bird
Conservancy's Thick-billed Parrot project and
$200 for All Creatures Great and
Small. Gulf of Mexico habitat restoration received
$1500 and All Creatures Great and Small
$200 from the 2010 sale and contributions.
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Nearly
$67,000
TO
PRESERVE HABITAT!
Seed Sale Fund Recipients
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