Dear Birdnews subscribers and OFO members, The Ontario Bird Records Committee (OBRC) will be holding their annual AGM on Saturday 9th April, at which time we will be nominating 2 new voting members to 3-year terms, commencing this year. The OBRC welcomes nominations from OFO members for people to serve on the committee - in particular, we encourage nominations from those that have traditionally been under-represented. Nominees should be OFO members in good standing, have an excellent knowledge in the field identification of birds, be actively engaged in the Ontario birding community, and positively support the OBRC through various means (e.g., submitting rare bird reports, provide information/documentation to the OBRC, etc.). Ideally, nominations will include a few sentences of text providing justification why they believe that this nominee is well suited to serve on the committee. Any OFO member in good standing can nominate another OFO member, including themselves, to the committee. Each OFO member can nominate 1 person for EACH of the 2 positions, as well as an additional nomination for the following: In addition to the standard rotation of serving committee members mentioned above, we are also seeking a secretary. As above, the secretary must be a member of OFO in good standing. The secretary cannot also be a voting member of the committee. A full description of the secretary's duties are found in section 3.4 of the bylaws (found at the following page: http://www.ofo.ca/site/Obrc). The secretary serves one year at a time but can serve an unlimited number of consecutive terms. The secretary has a varied job and is welcome to seek support - in fact this is encouraged. The filing systems are all in place but the secretary needs to be organised and responsive to submissions (mainly acknowledgments) and be comfortable with Gmail and Google Drive. For further information, please reach out at the address below. Nominations should be directed to obrc@ofo.ca <mailto:obrc@ofo.ca> no later than 7pm on Friday 8th April. Best regards, Mark Read OBRC Chair Mark D. Read 337 Button Bay Road, Wolfe Island, Kingston, Ontario K0H 2Y0 Canada Mobile: +1 (613) 217-1246 Email: <mailto:markdread@gmail.com> markdread@gmail.com <https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48000803210-sensiti ve-species-in-ebird> eBird Guidelines for Reporting Sensitive Species