ABA Young Birders

ABA Young Birder of the Year Contest

Registering for the ABA Young Birder of the Year Contest

To register for the contest, download an Acrobat PDF registration form from these pages.

  • If you are a first time participant, please use the "First Time" registration form
  • If you participated last year, please use the "Repeat" registration form

You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to read, save, or print the PDF form. If you are unable to download the forms, please email your mailing address to bstewart@aba.org and request a registration form.

The first-time registration fee is $50 for which you will receive the National Geographic 5th ed. field guide, ABA Trip List, ABA Birder's Field Notebook, and the ABA Birder's Field Notebook Manual. Repeat participant registration fee is $35. (Receive ABA Field Notebook and ABA Trip List.) Additional fees may be required for international participants due to the costs of shipping contest materials (including the return of participant materials). Please direct any questions you may have to Bill Stewart at bstewart@aba.org or by calling 719.884.8240 x 7. Good Luck to all participants!