Date: 12/27/25 10:02 am From: Edge Wade <1edgewade...> Subject: Attention Young Birders: MBS Camp Scholarships to American Birding Association’s (ABA) Young Birder Camps 2026
As of Monday, December 29, 2025, information about the scholarships and the
application materials are downloadable on the MBS website at
https://mobirds.org/MBS/Scholarship.aspx. *Applications must be received
by Sunday, February 15, 2026. *
The two 2026 camp scholarships are for 13-17 year-old birders, one for Camp
Colorado in Allenspark, CO, August 2-8, 2026, and one for Camp Delaware
Bay, coastal Delaware and Cape May, NJ, Aug. 6-12, 2026.
Additional information about the camps can be seen on the ABA website at
https://www.aba.org/camps/. MBS has reserved the places for young Missouri
birders at the camps with ABA. The MBS scholarship applicants DO NOT
REGISTER FOR THE CAMPS WITH ABA, as MBS has already arranged the
registrations, including the deposits. Scholarship awardees will complete
the registration details with ABA after selection by MBS.
Camp Colorado birders will explore the shortgrass prairie of northeastern
Colorado and into the aspen groves and alpine tundra of Rocky Mountain
National Park. Delaware Bay campers will visit the beaches, bayshore,
marshes, and woodlands in Delaware and around Cape May, NJ, in peak fall
shorebird migration.
2023 Camp Scholarship awardee Eliza Lohman’s account of her Camp Colorado
adventures in the December 2023 issue of *The Bluebir*d, and Zita
Roberton’s 2024 Camp Colorado report is in the September 2024 issue. These
may be found at https://mobirds.org/Bluebird/.
MBS Youth Scholarships are made possible by proceeds from silent auctions
at meetings and generous donations. You can donate to the Youth
Scholarship Fund at https://mobirds.org/MBS/Donate.aspx. Be sure to
indicate “Youth Scholarship Fund”.
