Thank you to our Sponsors!

Field Guides has been operating high-quality birding tours since 1985 from its headquarters in Austin, Texas. We have always believed in two simple premises: we want all of our clients to share in the excitement and fun of a top-notch birding adventure, and we want to provide the best service possible to our tour participants. We offer more than 150 advertised and private tours annually. 

Kowa offers an extensive line of binoculars, spotting scopes, telephoto lenses, and digiscoping equipment that excels in even the most rugged conditions. Our optics line-up is at the forefront of imaging excellence and our scopes and binoculars are available in a wide range of magnifications and sizes. Kowa has earned a reputation for high performance and outstanding craftsmanship.
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Visit Ithaca is an online resource for those planning a trip to the Ithaca area. Our website provides photos, maps and detailed information about things to do, food and drink, local events, places to stay and how to plan your stay. A part of the Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau, we also have a visitor center location on the Ithaca Commons.
Youth scholarships made possible by Visit Ithaca - Thank you!

Vortex Optics is an American manufacturer of reliable, durable and high-quality optics for wildlife watching. Our binoculars are known for clarity and field of view, while our spotting scopes are designed for long-range observation. With a wide range of products, Vortex is a popular choice among birders.
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ZEISS offers an impressive range of optics for nature observation. Our binoculars offer exceptional optical performance, outstanding ergonomics, and robust construction. Our spotting scopes provide natural reproduction of colors, the finest rendition of details, outstanding brightness, wide fields of view and powerful magnification.
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Vendor Tables Currently Scheduled

Cayuga Bird Club, your host of this year’s NYSOA meeting, will be on hand to meet and greet attendees, share sightings, swap stories and answer any questions you may have.  Our members share a common bond, but are a diverse group of people with wide-ranging professions and backgrounds.

eBird provides a mechanism to gather bird sightings, photos and sounds to power data-driven approaches to science, conservation and education.  Merlin is a birding guide that helps quickly identify birds in any country using field marks, photos and/or sounds.  Members of both the eBird and Merlin teams from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will be on hand to answer your questions about these very useful apps.

Karen Allaben-Confer Art, original artwork using pastels, pencil and watercolors. Birds have been her primary focus for nearly four decades. Her work beautifully demonstrates her knowledge of avian biology, behavior, and ecology.
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Kayla Fisk creates art illustrating the incredible diversity found in the world of birds as well as a series that includes drawing the birds of North America life size. Each species illustrated is available as art, earrings and stickers.

New York Bird of the Year, a new NYSOA initiative, is a fun way for birders to share our excitement about birding with our fellow birders, family, and friends by focusing on a specific New York bird species to search out, identify, and enjoy in a creative way.

Mayuko Fujino Stencil Art.  Mayuko Fujino is a self-taught artist from Japan living in Columbia County, NY, whose stencil paintings have been featured in Audubon Magazine's Aviary series, Constitution Marsh Audubon's Spring Benefit, and on the cover of the Nature Conservancy's Annual Report. Fine art prints and greeting cards featuring local birds and nature sites in upstate New York will be available.

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NYS Breeding Bird Atlas is a five-year project (occurring every 20 years) relying on volunteer field observers to visit various habitats within assigned blocks and record evidence of breeding for as many species as possible. The Third Breeding Bird Atlas effort finished in 2024 and results are now being analyzed and compared with previous numbers and distributions of breeding birds across New York State.

NYSOA (NY State Ornithological Society), established in 1948, is our statewide organization dedicated to documenting the ornithology of New York State, and provides informational and educational resources for birders and ornithologists alike, and organizes annual meetings and conferences for birders across the state.

New York State Young Birders Club falls under the umbrella of NYSOA and conducts monthly field trips around the state, offering young birders (ages 10-19) the opportunity to go birding with their peers, often in places they've never explored before.

Randi Minetor crisscrosses the country regularly to research and shoot photos for books on birds, hiking, history and America’s national parks. A wife-and-husband team, the Minetors have worked together on more than thirty books to date, including their comprehensive Birdfinding guides. 

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resetreality.  Vanessa Lee is a first generation, Chinese American multidisciplinary graphics artist, small business entrepreneur, and unapologetic nerd about a wide variety of things. She has an impressive portfolio of bird-themed drawings including original prints and greeting cards. 

Sue deLearie Adair’s artwork is inspired by her love of the natural world.  A birder for over 30 years, she features detailed subjects with simple, sometimes even stylized, backgrounds, drawing in various combinations of graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor. 

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Wild Birds Unlimited has a wide selection of gifts, bird houses, bird feeders and feeding supplies, books, and binoculars.  The Ithaca Wild Birds Unlimited store is located at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Visitor Center.

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Vendor Table Rates

We invite you to showcase your birding and nature-related merchandise and services to our conference participants. Conference activities will be held in the newly opened Ithaca Downtown Conference Center, with ample space for vendor displays. Don't miss this great opportunity to promote your products to our very passionate group of birding enthusiasts!

Our vendor area will provide 6-foot skirted tables (1 per application) and chairs, and includes free WiFi access. 

• $50 - Individual Artisans

• $100 - Businesses

A vendor fee will not be charged to nonprofit organizations or to government agencies with at least one paid conference registration.

Reserve your spot today -- we hope to see you there!
Contact us at nysoa2025@gmail.com for more information.

Conference participants will be in the vendor area during the following times:

Friday registration and Welcome Reception: 1:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Saturday: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm 

There is a locked room for use by vendors on Friday night, if helpful for overnight secure storage.

Silent Auction

All vendors and sponsors are encouraged to donate an item for our Silent Auction. 

You’ll get special recognition on our event website and in the event program, and you'll help support our conference!

Expanded Sponsorship Opportunities

Your donations of cash and/or merchandise will help support our conference!

• $500 - Includes 6-foot skirted vendor table and chairs PLUS your logo on our event website and program vendor directory

• $1500* - Includes the above (1-2 tables) PLUS you can provide an item for participant gift bags, either literature or a small giveaway

• $2000* - Includes all of the above PLUS your logo on the conference screen before Friday and Saturday evening presentations, and we'll include your business card in every program folder

*Sponsorships above $500 may be a combination of cash and product.

Products will be used for a Silent Auction at the event. Sponsorships at these levels will also receive free Saturday Banquet ticket(s).

Contact us at nysoa2025@gmail.com for more information.