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Older Organisations

Although the West Midland Bird Club has existed since 1929, we're not the oldest such organisation. On this page, we pay tribute to these organisations, whose foundations preceded ours, and which are all still in operation:

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• 1858 — British Ornithologists' Union (UK)
• 1873 — Nuttall Ornithological Club (MA, USA)
• 1883 — American Ornithologists' Union (USA)
• 1888 — Wilson Ornithological Society (MI, USA)
• 1889 — Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (UK)
• 1890 — Delaware Valley Ornithological Club (PA, USA)
• 1893 — Cooper Ornithological Club (CA, USA)
• 1896 — Massachusetts Audubon (MA, USA)
• 1897 — Illinois Audubon Society (IL, USA)
• 1897 — New Jersey Audubon Society (NJ, USA)
• 1898 — Indiana Audubon Society (IN, USA)
• 1899 — Nebraska Ornithologists' Union (NE, USA)
• 1899 — South Australian Ornithologists Association (now trading as "Birds SA", Australia)
• 1901 — Birds Australia (was Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union; Australia)
• 1902 — Audubon Society of Portland (OR, USA)
• 1904 — Pasadena Audubon Society (CA, USA)
• 1905 — Bird Observers Club of Australia
• 1905 — National Audubon Society (was National Association of Audubon Societies; USA)
• 1905 — Charleston Natural History Society (SC, USA)
• 1906 — San Fernando Valley Audubon Society (CA, USA)
• 1906 — Danish Ornithological Society ("Dansk Ornitologisk Forening", Denmark)
• 1907 — New Haven Bird Club (CT, USA)
• 1909 — Hartford Audubon Society (CT, USA)
• 1912 — Chicago Ornithological Society (IL, USA)
• 1912 — Allen Bird Club (MA, USA)
• 1913 — Bedford Audubon Society (NY, USA)
• 1913 — Brookline Bird Club (MA, USA)
• 1913 — Columbus Audubon Society (OH, USA)
• 1914 — Wyncote Audubon Society (was Wyncote Bird Club; PA, USA)
• 1915 — Tennessee Ornithological Society (TN, USA)
• 1916 — Essex County Ornithological Club (MA, USA)
• 1916 — Aves Argentinas / Asociación Ornitológica del Plata (was "Sociedad Ornitológica del Plata"; Argentina)
• 1917 — Golden Gate Audubon Society (CA, USA)
• 1917 — Province of Quebec Society for the Protection of Birds, (Canada)
• 1919 — Southwest Bird Study Club (website for members only, USA)
• 1921 — Oxford Ornithological Society (originally part of the Ashmolean Natural History Society, see below; UK)
• 1923 — Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society (originally the Native Bird Protection Society; New Zealand)
• 1925 — Cambridgeshire Bird Club (UK)
• 1928 — Devon Bird Watching & Preservation Society  (UK)
• 1929 — West Midland Bird Club (originally Birmingham Bird Club, UK)

An honourable mention, also, to:

• 1828 — Ashmolean Natural History Society (UK)
• 1829 — Natural History Society of Northumbria (UK)
• 1842 — Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archaeological Society (UK)
• 1858 — London Natural History Society (founded as the Haggerston Entomological Society; UK)
• 1859 — Birmingham Natural History Society (UK)
• 1878 — Linnaean Society of New York (NY, USA)
• 1879 — Ottawa Field Naturalists (Canada)
• 1880 — Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (Australia)
• 1885 — The Selborne Society (UK)
• 1890 — McIlwraith Field Naturalists (Canada)
• 1897 — Audubon Naturalist Society (MD, USA)
• 1905 — The British Naturalists' Association (founded as the The British Empire Naturalists' Association; UK)
• 1907 — British Birds magazine (UK)
• 1929 — North Western Naturalists' Union (UK)

though they're not, strictly speaking, bird clubs.

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