Annual Meetings

Each year, usually in the autumn, IBBA holds an annual conference in a different part of the inland area. There you can meet amateur and professional banders and ornithologists with a wide range of interests and discuss mutual concerns. The two day weekend meeting includes scientific papers and reports, informal talks about birds, workshop sessions on identification and banding techniques, field trips to watch birds and/or observe banding, a business meeting, and annual banquet.

2025 IBBA Meeting

Carpenter Nature Center in Hastings, Minnesota during the weekend of October 24 – 26

The 2025 Inland Bird Banding Association Annual Meeting will be held at Carpenter Nature Center in Hastings, Minnesota during the weekend of October 24 – 26. Events will include banding demonstrations, scientific presentations, guest speakers, field trips led by experienced local guides, and much more. Check back here for more updates as we get closer to the date of the meeting.

Registration Details for the 2025 IBBA Annual Meeting

Online Registration

Proposals For Presentations

The Inland Bird Banding Association invites banders to submit proposals to present at our annual membership meeting, October 24-26, 2025 in Haistings, Minnesota at the Carpenter Nature Center.

Presentations should focus on bird banding as an important aspect of the talk but are not limited to banding only. Topics from a broad range of disciplines (e.g. ecology, genetics, education, behavior, disease, etc.) are welcome. Presentation length should be 15-20 minutes including time for questions. Powerpoint will be available. If other technology is needed please describe that in the proposal.

Please send proposals and questions to Roger.Everhart@gmail.com no later than September 30^th.

Past Meetings

2023 Meeting

2023 IBBA Meeting

Inland Bird Banding Association Annual Meeting
Warner Park Nature Center, Nashville, Tennessee

November 10-12, 2023

The 2023 annual conference was held at Warner Park Nature Center in Nashville, Tennessee on November 10–12, 2023. This meeting included updates from IBBA and the Bird Banding Laboratory, scientific paper and poster presentations, a Saturday evening banquet, and a Sunday bird watching field trip or Motus workshop option.

We had a wonderful time and look forward to 2024’s meeting,

The 2023 IBBA meeting planning team: David Aborn, Sandy Bivens, Susan Bradfield, Laura Cook, Vera Roberts, Kathy Shaw, Jessica Steele