TOS-KOS Joint Fall 2026 Meeting September 18-20

A message from KOS President David Bailey:

I'm excited to announce that our KOS fall meeting this year will be a joint meeting alongside the Tennessee Ornithological Society!

We will be meeting at the Land Between the Lakes area on September 18-20. Due to ongoing construction at the parks, our meetings will take place at Lake Barkley State Resort Park and lodging will be a short drive away at KenLake Resort Park. There is plenty of camping all around as well.

If you plan to make a reservation at KenLake, cottage and lodge rooms are available ranging from $111-$143/night, plus taxes. To get our special rate, use group code 3076 when making a reservation. You may reserve online at this link or by calling (207) 474-2211. Reservations must be made by July 18th for cottages and August 18th for lodge rooms, but I would encourage you to make your reservations quickly because we anticipate this to be a well attended meeting. Also keep in mind that breakfast is not included in the room rate, but there are breakfast restaurants located on site, you may just want to plan on arriving there early for meals as it could be busy.

Most excitingly, our keynote speakers on both Friday and Saturday nights will be Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch who co-authored two books: Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees and Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Kingbirds and Myiarchus . If you haven't picked up these field guides, they are tremendously useful (the empidonax one for anywhere in the US and the kingbirds/myiarchus one to prepare for a rare vagrant to show up in your yard!). Cin-Ty and Andrew should teach us quite a bit and have us returning home from the weekend as better birders than when we arrived.

We are still working on details surrounding field trips, separate business meetings, and other aspects of the fall meeting, so check BirdKY.org for more details as they become available and I will also plan on sending out a reminder or two as we get closer to the fall meeting.