COMPETITIONS

Go outside and check out store signs, streetlights, balconies, traffic lights, gutters, downspouts, roofs, stadium lights, grills, utility poles, potted plants and more, and you’ll be amazed at the bird nests you’ll likely find. When you do find a “funky nest in a funky place” share your story with celebrateurbanbirds.org. You might find you’ve not only begun your birding experience, you’ve also collected one of the prizes as a challenge winner. 

Swarovski Optik teams bested the competition in three different categories of the first statewide version of the Great Texas Birding Classic, and two of those wins enabled its teams to select which habitat conservation projects receive $10,000 of the $17,000 awarded from this year's event.

Discovering the beauty and diversity of nature, and capturing and sharing priceless moments: these are the aims of the 8th "Digiscoper of the Year" competition, which was announced June 2 by SWAROVSKI OPTIK.

The eBirders from Cornell Lab of Ornithology head to the Birding Rally Challenge (BRC) in Peru this month, where they will be posting updates on the eBird Facebook page from a place with almost unparalleled bird species diversity, on the world's richest continent for birds.

Birders can still sign up for the 2013 Kansas Birding Big Year, a competition where participants attempt to observe as many species of birds as they can within the borders of Kansas now through Dec. 31, 2013.

Five intrepid Cornell University students tallied 166 species of birds in 24 hours to capture the Cape May County division championship at the World Series of Birding in New Jersey on May 11.

A team of Cornell's finest will compete this week in the annual World Series of Birding competition in Cape May, New Jersey, on May 11.

This year the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) will host a statewide birding contest dubbed the "Kansas Birding Big Year."