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Ballie Birdathon Partners
The Baillie Birdathon provides BSC with an opportunity to assist conservation
organizations across Canada. Participants are allowed to designate a club or migration
monitoring station to receive a share of the donations, while BSC covers all the costs of
administration and issuing receipts.
Top Ten Participating Conservation Organizations
with Amount Raised
| Norfolk Field
Naturalists |
$ 18,435.20 |
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Long Point Bird Observatory
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$17,615.00 |
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Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory |
$15,067.58
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Ontario Field Ornithologists
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$13,719.09 |
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Ontario Nature |
$12,784.30
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Migration Research Foundation, McGill BO
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$8,575.45
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Calgary Bird Banding Society (IBO)
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$7,813.75
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Tommy Thompson Park Bird Research Station (TRCA)
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$7,519.00
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Hamilton Naturalists Club
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$7,053.10 |
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West Humber Naturalists |
$4,877.70 |
The winner of the 2009 CMMN Prize was Beaverhill Lake Bird
Observatory. Beaverhill Lake Bird Observatory raised a total of
$3,258.00 in 2009, and is the lucky winner of Kowa TSN-664 ED
Spotting Scope with the TSE-14WD 30x Wide Angle Eyepiece
courtesy of Pelee Wings Nature Store -
www.peleewings.ca and Kowa -
Crystal Clear Optics -
www.kowascope.com (Approximate retail value of $1500.00.) Good
luck to all CMMN stations in the 2010 CMMN prize draw!
In addition, the efforts of Birdathon participants provide funding for the
James L. Baillie Memorial Fund to support amateur research project nation-wide.
To learn more about the Baillie Fund,
click here
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