Thank you for a great 3rd annual

Birding Man

The Birding Man has burned for another year. Thank you to everyone who came, played, taught and gave. See you in 2027.

2027 date to be announced

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Support Oxbow

A presenter speaks into a microphone with a spectacled owl on her glove while a crowd watches

Photo by Jerry Schulte

The wooden Birding Man effigy fully alight against the night sky

Photo by Oxbow, Inc.

A three-piece string band playing on a wooden stage decorated with corn stalks and string lights

Photo by Jerry Schulte

Our biggest night of the year

The night that funds the floodplain.

Birding Man is Oxbow, Inc.’s annual festival and our biggest fundraiser of the year. All proceeds go to protecting and improving the floodplain at the confluence of the Great Miami and Ohio Rivers.

Live music

Local acts all day long

Workshops

Learn something new

Vendors

Local organizations, food, & artists

A group of walkers gathered on a gravel trail listening to a guide

Guided bird walks

Afternoon and evening guided walks

Silent Auction

Win great prizes and support us

The wooden Birding Man effigy standing on a gravel lot under a blue sky

Birding Man Bonfire

Feel the heat

Support Oxbow

Every dollar protects the floodplain.

Birding Man is our biggest fundraiser of the year. Whether or not you can make it on the night, here is how to help.

Give

Make a gift

Every gift goes to protecting and improving the 1,600+ acres of floodplain Oxbow, Inc. cares for.

Donate

Other ways to give

Aerial view of Oxbow Lake surrounded by green floodplain forest

Photo by Guitto

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Memberships support our mission for land acquisition, habitat restoration, and daily stewardship.

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2026 Vendors

Against the Grain Woodshop

Archaeological Research Institute

Arc of Appalachia

Biology Field Station - Thomas More University

Chance Expeditions

Cincinnati Astronomical Society

Civic Garden Center

Ivy Tech Community College

Kentucky Wild

Northern Kentucky Bird Club

Ohio Valley Forestry Fellowship

Queer Birders of Cincinnati

Timbre Studio

Western Wildlife Corridor

Wisdom Tree

Thank you to our 2026 sponsors

Want to become a vendor or sponsor for next year?

Put your business in front of the festival crowd and back local conservation.

Get in touch

Birding Man 2025

Birding Man in pictures

Festival crowd gathered on gravel in front of a white barn at dusk

Photo by Oxbow, Inc.

Photo by Jerry Schulte

A barn owl perched on a handler's glove with festival visitors looking on

Photo by Oxbow, Inc.

A tall bonfire throws sparks into the night sky beside a pavilion, with the moon above the hills

Photo by Jerry Schulte

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Oxbow, Inc. is a nonprofit organization based in Lawrenceburg, Indiana focused on preserving and protecting a wetlands known as the Oxbow, a staging area for the seasonal migrations of waterfowl at the confluence of the Great Miami and Ohio rivers.