Date: 11/9/26 3:57 am From: Edge Wade <00000631c0031214-dmarc-request...> Subject: MBS Camp Scholarships to American Birding Association’s (ABA) Young Birder Camps 2027
The Missouri Birding Society is again sponsoring camp scholarships for
Missouri young birders age 13-17. For the 2027 camp season we are offering
two scholarships: one to attend Camp Colorado in Allenspark, CO, June
27-July 3, 2027; and one to Camp Delaware Bay, coastal Delaware and Cape
May, NJ, July 29-August 4, 2027.
The camp scholarships include $20 for ABA Young Birder annual membership,
full camp tuition of $2,375, plus $300 toward travel expenses for a total
of $2,695 for each camp scholarship.
The application process will open on *Monday, November 16, 2026.* Information
about the scholarships and the application materials will be downloadable
on that date on the MBS website at https://mobirds.org/MBS/Scholarship.aspx.
*Applications must be received no later than Friday, February 12, 2027*.
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 and reserved the registrations. After
selection by MBS, scholarship awardees will complete the registration
details directly with ABA prior to March 11, 2027.
Camp Colorado birders will explore Colorado from grassland to glaciers,
from the shortgrass prairie of northeastern Colorado to the aspen groves
and alpine tundra of Rocky Mountain National Park. Camp Delaware Bay
visits many of the mid-Atlantic’s most celebrated birding hotspots during
peak shorebird migration, from Bombay Hook and Prime Hook national wildlife
refuges in Delaware to legendary hotspots in and around Cape May, New
Jersey, birding the beaches, bayshore, marshes, and woodlands of the region.
Camp Colorado accounts by previous MBS scholarship awardees Eliza Lohman
and Zita Robertson are in the December 2023 and September 2024 issues of *The
Bluebir*d. Sylvie Purkis’ account of Camp Colorado 2026 and Darby Nugent’s
adventures at Camp Delaware Bay 2026 will be in the December 2026 issue.
These may be found at https://mobirds.org/Bluebird/.
MBS Youth Scholarships are made possible by proceeds from silent auctions
at meetings and by generous donations. You can donate to the Youth
Scholarship Fund at https://mobirds.org/MBS/Donate.aspx. Be sure to
indicate “Youth Scholarship Fund.”
Edge Wade, Chair
MBS Youth Scholarship Committee
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