EcoWeekend's setting at Camp Oty'Okwa in an unspoiled Hocking County location in early May provides great opportunities for wildlife watching. For example, the bird list below for a past EcoWeekend includes 72 species:
| Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Osprey Red-shouldered Hawk Wild Turkey Mourning Dove Barred Owl Whip-poor-will Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Olive-sided Flycatcher Eastern Wood-pewee Acadian Flycatcher Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Veery |
Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Chestnut-sided Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black and White Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Hooded Warbler Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch |
 Hermit Thrush |
 White-throated Sparrow |
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