Birdathon 2025

This year, we are holding Birdathon in fall. Money raised will be used to purchase a 98” Flat Screen TV for the Baker Wetlands Classroom, where we hold our educational programs every month. The current classroom has an overhead projector that is out-of-date, difficult to focus, and, frankly, embarrassing to use. Many of our presenters spent $10-20,000 on their camera equipment. It is a shame to have to project their images with a fuzzy, dim projector.

Our goal is to raise $3,000 to purchase a state of the art Crystal LED High Definition flat screen. It will provide an image that is as big as the current projector, but bright, crystal clear and easier to connect to our speakers’ presentations.

The screen will be installed permanently in the classroom, and will be enjoyed by many other community organizations that use the space. LBA has benefitted from the Baker Wetlands and we have collaborated with them on many ventures. This will be a win-win for LBA, the Wetlands, and the wider community.

Here’s how Birdathon works: Interested birders will be conducting bird surveys/tallying on two dates: Thursday Oct. 2 and Saturday Oct. 4.  If you count species on either of those dates, send your lists of species to Roger Boyd at rboydbird69@gmail.com. 

To donate to Birdathon, you can pledge a set amount or you can give us an incentive to find species by pledging to pay a specific amount per species, such as $1 per species, once the surveys are done. Fall is a more difficult time to find birds and most summer migrants will have departed before October so we are speculating that 70 species will be close to the maximum.

To make a pledge, please contact Roger at rboydbird69@gmail.com  After the Birdathon is completed, you will be contacted by email about how to pay your pledge. Or you can make a one-time donation now by clicking on the Donate button below.

We hope you can support this worthy cause for LBA and Baker Wetlands.  Thank you for your ongoing support of Lawrence Bird Alliance!