Events

The annual Great Backyard Bird Count is being held this year from February 14 to 17. A joint annual event sponsored by Cornell University, Audubon, and Birds Canada, in which participants make a note of the birds in their backyards, and communicate the data to Cornell. Participants decide where they want to observe, for example

Birds & Beers IV | Science on Tap PIBO is delighted to be taking part in the fourth annual Birds & Beers event, sponsored by the University of Windsor. This multifaceted community-outreach event includes presentations from the university’s graduate students and professors in ornithology, information from the University of Windsor Ornithology Club, artwork from Science

Salah and Jacob invite you to a special Garden Party & Art Tour with Margaret Atwood and Special Guests, at their home in Paris, Ontario.

May 8 – 12, 2024
Come join us for a fun-filled multi-day birding event to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day. A family-friendly birding challenge to spot the most birds in Windsor during a 24 hour period. Events are FREE and open to all levels of birders.

On Sunday, May 12, 2024, join Mexican bird guide Rodrigo Lopez on Pelee Island to learn about the natural and cultural history of the Rose-bellied bunting, one of Mexico’s most beautiful endemic birds. Confined to an area about the size of Algonquin Park, the plight of this tiny blue-and-rose bird, which struggles to survive in habitat threatened by a transoceanic railway, wind farms, and global warming, signals the threat to the tens of millions of birds that migrate twice a year through pinch-points such as Pelee Island and the Mexican Isthmus.

Friday March 15, 2024 join PIBO staffer Davina Sanjqly and members of the University of Windsor Ornithology Club on a bird walk around the U of W campus.

PIBO in Mexico On March 2, PIBO held its first Birds Without Borders Sunset Cocktail Party, an event designed to raise funds for our 2024 Guest Birder and International Intern programs. The party was hosted in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, by Camino Sylvestre at the home of Jim McKeever and Alfredo García-Lucio, who also

Windsor Urban Birding Challenge May 10 – 14, 2023, The Windsor Urban Birding Challenge is a new event created by The Pelee Island Bird Observatory. The event aims to introduce new birders to discovering nature in their city and to challenge experienced birders in an urban environment. It also incorporates the annual World Migratory Bird

World Migratory Bird Day Saturday, May 14, Optimist Community Centre May 14 is World Migratory Bird Day, a global campaign that brings attention to one of the most spectacular annual events in nature: bird migration. To celebrate this international conservation effort, PIBO is holding a special event at the Optimist Community Centre in Windsor, from