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CFO provides travel awards for youth and students to attend scientific conferences, birding camps, training workshops, and other educational endeavors to promote the education of the next generation of bird enthusiasts, researchers, and conservationists. To learn more about the travel awards and other CFO grants, please visit the CFO website . Moira Wistera, an undergraduate at MSU Denver, was selected as the artist for the 2026 CFO Convention in Loveland, CO. Through that initial connection, Moira became a CFO member, joined the CFO convention planning committee, and successfully applied for a travel award to attend the convention.
CFO provides travel awards for youth and students to attend scientific conferences, birding camps, training workshops, and other educational endeavors to promote the education of the next generation of bird enthusiasts, researchers, and conservationists. To learn more about the travel awards and other CFO grants, please visit the CFO website . All birds photographed in this article are banded under Federal and State licenses and permits and handled by trained bird banders.
Information formerly found in Birding Hotspots is migrating to eBird.
Degraded grasslands in Chihuahua, Mexico in 2018. This is poor habitat for overwintering grassland birds. Photo courtesy of Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
