MOS 73rd ANNUAL CONVENTION

Celebrate the 75th year of MOS!

May 15-17, 2020

Cumberland, MD

The 73rd annual Maryland Ornithological Society (MOS) Convention will be held May 15 – May 17, 2020 at the Cumberland Ramada in Cumberland, Maryland.  Attendees are being offered a room rate at the Ramada of $109 and reservations must be made by April 17th, 2020 to ensure this rate.  The Ramada offers a free hot breakfast for those staying at the Ramada. Room reservations must be made directly with the hotel, so please call 301-724-8800 and mention the MOS Convention. If you want to use the Ramada website to make your reservation, use the group code MOS20 to get this rate.

Convention registration opens on February 15th, 2020 on the MOS Convention website, http://www.mosconvention.org.  You will be able to register for the convention and select your meal plan. Payment for convention registration and meal plan are handled via PayPal account or directly with a credit card and is integrated with the MOS website. Attendees will receive email confirmation of convention registration. Field trip sign-up starts April 1st, 2020. At that time you will be able to pick your field trips and seminars.   Attendees will receive email confirmation of field trip selections. Registration is limited to 300 attendees and registration closes April 30, 2020.  This convention will be special because it will celebrate our 75th year as an organization.

We are looking for field trip leaders as well as volunteers for the convention.

If you are interested in supporting this year’s convention, please send your contact information – name, email address and phone number – to Dave Wilson at marshhawk67@gmail.com by January 31, 2020.  You can indicate which partial days you are able to support (Friday PM, Saturday AM, Saturday PM, and/or Sunday AM), any particular location(s), and even how many trips you would like to lead. If you would like to co-lead, please indicate that as well and with whom it would be.  We look forward to hearing from you.

If you are interested in helping with other aspects of the convention such as Registration Check in, Photo Contest, Raffle sales and the Tally Rally, please send your contact information – name, email address and phone number – to Meg Harris at mctharris@gmail.com.  Please indicate what area you would be interested in helping.

MOS 72nd ANNUAL CONVENTION

May 31 – June 2, 2019

Washington College

Chestertown, MD

Thank you to all who attended the Convention and to the many volunteers! We hope you enjoyed the weekend of great birding and meeting new people and catching up with old friends.

Winning pin design for May-June 2019 Convention – Chestertown, MD

Every year MOS hosts an annual conference for MOS members and the general public. Conference locations vary from year to year to sample Maryland’s great diversity of species and habitats. Usually these are held in the spring or early summer when birds are migrating or nest building but are occasionally held in August to catch the shorebird early migration southward or in February in Ocean City to see the wintering waterfowl. Recent conferences have been at: Washington College, Ocean City, WISP Resort, and Salisbury University. Please return to this page to see advanced notice of conferences, pin contest announcement, followed by details and online registration.