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That's right! The Howard County Bird Club has contributed
over $61,000 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. 2008 meant $1300 to Deleware
Ornithological Society to help the Red Knot and a
total of $450 to All Creatures Great and Small and
Baltimore Checkerspot restoration.
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Almost
$60,000
TO PRESERVE
HABITAT!
Seed Sale Fund Recipients
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