CFO Pueblo May 7-11 Convention Registration Now Open to Members!

[Diana Beatty]

Yes!

It's time to sign-up for those great field trips from Huerfano County to the Wet Mountains to John Martin Reservoir to Mueller State Park and much more - plus a fun welcome picnic, an awesome social at the John Deaux Gallery, our annual meeting and banquet with Mike Parr from American Bird Conservancy, and great presentations in the poster and paper sessions.

Registration for the convention is now open to all whose CFO membership is current.  A registration e-mail with instructions and link went out late last night to members' e-mail addresses on file.  You will find our convention rates are pretty much the cheapest around.

If you did not get one and believe you should have, you can contact our membership chair at  membe...@cobirds.org.

CFO conventions are fun for birders of all abilities.  As current CFO President Nick Komar said in the latest journal:  "So I ask myself, is CFO really an organization for “birders,” or is it for “field ornithologists”? After much thought, I have decided that the answer is most emphatically, “YES!!” 

"Certainly, CFO provides useful services for both birders and field ornithologists. Birders learn more about their hobby reading the informative pages of our quarterly journal Colorado Birds. Professional ornithologists and students of ornithology publish research articles in our journal, and present their research in the scientific session of our Annual Convention. [This year, during the Annual Convention in Pueblo, which will be held May 7-11, they will have the option of presenting an informational poster as well!] 

"Birders and ornithologists alike benefit from the discussion opportunities provided by the COBIRDS email forum (list-serve) and the CFO Facebook page. Birders can share their hobby with other like-minded folk on CFO-guided field trips during our annual convention and on special excursions organized at other times during the year. Ornithologists can utilize our official database of bird records curated by CFO’s Colorado Bird Records Committee, and our unofficial resource for sightings of unusual birds in our regular journal feature “News from the Field”. 

"However, and more importantly, all of us birders who share our sightings are indeed FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS. We study birds in the field - in their natural habitats - and we report our observations to COBIRDS, or to Facebook, and to many citizen science projects including eBird, the Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas projects, the Audubon Christmas Bird Counts, the USGS Breeding Bird Survey, the Great Backyard Bird Count, and other instruments of field ornithology used by professional ornithologists, biologists, resource managers, conservationists, etc."

See you at the convention!

Diana Beatty

on behalf of CFO Board

El Paso County