*MBS Camp Scholarships to American Birding Association’s (ABA) Young Birder
Camps 2026*
MBS is again sponsoring camp scholarships for Missouri young birders age
13-17. For the 2026 camp season, we are offering two scholarships: 1 to
attend Camp Colorado in Allenspark, CO, August 2-8, 2026, and 1 to Camp
Delaware Bay, coastal Delaware and Cape May, NJ, Aug. 6-12, 2026.
The application process will open on Monday, December 29, 2025. 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 by Sunday, February 15, 2026.
Additional information about the camps can be seen now 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”.
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