HBRC is dedicated to the study and preservation of all federally protected birds.

Our goals are:

To facilitate  training, education and research, by which we can expand our knowledge and understanding of hummingbirds and other birds in an effort to help ensure their preservation.

To empower the public to contribute to the research. This research, in collaboration with other banders, has the potential of creating invaluable data for birds that reside or pass through the Midwest and the eastern U.S. 

Educate the public to take steps to attract hummingbirds throughout the entire year, not just during spring, summer and fall and invite hummingbird banders to band hummingbirds that come to their feeders, learn about hummingbird banding and research.

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HBRC research will include a variety of studies for birds and Hummingbirds.

Primary research projects include Spring Migration, Fall Migration, Winter Avian Ecology Study, Saw-whet Owl study and M.A.P.S.

 The two areas in which HBRC will focus its efforts in relation to Hummingbirds will be migration patterns of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, and documentation, identification, timeline and migration routes of Western Hummingbirds which, we have recently discovered, pass through Ohio and the Eastern U.S. during Winter. This will provide potentially countless opportunities to compile much needed data on various hummingbirds and to see, band and identify other species that may occur in Winter after the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds have migrated away.

Bird banding has provided data used to encourage land management, hunting regulations, knowledge of survivorship of birds, health and causes of death, productivity and survivorship, to name a few.