The 1990s

1990

• 10-year repeat of Ontario Heronry Inventory initiated.
• Operating revenues exceed $500,000 for first time.
• LPBO houses Research Director of the Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund.
• Birding guide to Long Point region published.
• Tax-benefit program for volunteer participants in the Canadian Breeding Bird Survey and other projects instituted.

1991

• Annual Young Ornithologists Workshop established.
• Interpretation displays ready for official opening of the Old Cut Field Station and Visitor Centre.
• LPBO works cooperatively with Thunder Bay Field Naturalists and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources to establish the Thunder Cape Bird Observatory.
• Endowment Fund assets pass $100,000.
• Long-term Breeding Bird Census project established on Long Point.

1992

• Procedures manual for operating a migration monitoring station made available to banders and researchers across Canada.
• LPBO receives 4-year annual challenge grant of $25,000.
• ORBBP publishes status reports on 58 target species.
• Volunteer-based survey of Ontario's owls initiated.
• LPBO assumes coordination of volunteer surveys of Red-shouldered Hawks and spring woodpeckers in Ontario.
• Seasonal Warden engaged to help coordinate migration monitoring program.

1993

• LPBO co-hosts international workshop on migration monitoring which results in the establishment of North American Migration Monitoring Council.Baillie Fund.
• Initiates special five-year program in support of the development of Canadian Migration Monitoring Network.
• 2nd seasonal Warden engaged.
• FON and LPBO launch 2-year research project on the effects of forest fragmentation on woodland biodiversity.
• Volunteer-based marsh monitoring project initiated.
• Recovery work on endangered Henslow's Sparrow and Loggerhead Shrike initiated.
• 3-year educational program initiated under Earthwatch.
• 3-year program to place Project FeederWatch posters in schools across Canada initiated.

1994

• McCracken becomes Program Manager.
• LPBO receives major bequest from Doug Tarry, increasing Endowment Fund assets to $492,000.
• Professional Endowment Fund managers hired.
• Permanent educational programs established at Long Point as a result of Doug Tarry's gift.
• FON and LPBO co-publish "Ontario Birds At Risk".
• Dr. Charles Francis hired as Senior Scientist.
• Board approves new mission statement.
• Board establishes Bird Studies Canada committee to oversee LPBO's increasing national and international activities.
• LPBO and the Canadian Nature Federation (CNF) become the Canadian partners of BirdLife International.
• FON and LPBO initiate the Ontario Birds At Risk Program to monitor and recover Ontario's threatened bird species.

1995

• 500,000th bird banded.
• Operating revenues exceed $1,000,000 for first time.
• LPBO acquires three buildings at Tip station and negotiates long-term work permit.
• LPBO publishes "Forest Birds of Carolinian Canada."
• 31-acre, $216,000 headquarters site acquired at base of Long Point, increasing capital assets to $323,000.
• LPBO and CNF launch Important Bird Areas program.
• Latin American Training program initiated.

1996

• Long Point declared as Canada's first Globally Important Bird Area.
• Program to determine bird conservation priorities for all Canadian jurisdictions initiated.
• LPBO assumes coordination of Bald Eagle recovery efforts in southern Ontario.
• International work in Cuba, Malaysia, Laos and Ivory Coast conducted.
• Buildings at Tip station retrofitted with solar energy and other soft technology.
• Obtained zoning approval, completed site management plan and selected architect for new headquarters.
• LPBO receives assets of Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund, increasing Endowment Fund assets to $1,109,000.
• Capital assets increase to $486,000.

1997

• Hired full-time Landbird Programs Coordinator for LPBO.
• Mud room added to Tip cabin.
• Land restoration activities begin at headquarters property.
• Acquired critical migratory bird habitat adjacent to the Old Cut Field Station and Visitor Centre.
• Acquired a 10-year matching grant from Ducks Unlimited Canada for research activities of the Long Point Waterfowl and Wetlands Research Fund.
• Marsh Monitoring Program completed 3-year pilot and attracted new support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Celebrated 20^th year of providing Baillie Fund grants.
• Canadian Nature Federation and National Audubon Society become partners in Project FeederWatch.
• Launched the BSC Website.

1998

• Completed analysis of trends in migrant bird populations at Long Point for 1961-1977 period for publication.
• Initiated program on Tundra Swan ecology and migration placing satellite transmitters in 5 birds in the spring and 3 in the fall.
• Completed overview of waterfowl and wetlands ecology at Long Point.
• Analyzed population trends from 22 years of Project FeederWatch data.
• Published "Conserving Birds in Southern Ontario."
• Hosted first meeting of representatives of the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network and designated first 6 full members (Inglewood [Calgary], AB; Last Mountain, SK; Delta Marsh, MB; Thunder Cape, ON; Whitefish Point, MI; Innis Point, ON).
• Completed schematic design for new BSC headquarters and launched $2.5 million capital campaign.
• Helped launch the trilateral North American Bird Conservation Initiative in Puebla, Mexico.
• Acquired Supplementary Letters Patent changing the name of the organisation to Bird Studies Canada/Études d’Oiseaux Canada and adopted a new By-Law Number 1 (constitution).