Funk Bottoms Wildlife Area

Ohio Birding Drives are routes for birding trips which can be accomplished in one day, stopping to walk and bird at various eBird hotspots. For each Birding Drive, a Google map is provided with the route and suggested stops at eBird hotspots. You may save the link to the Google map on your smartphone or tablet, or print a copy on paper to take with you. Links are provided for each eBird hotspot. Follow those links for information about birding each location.

Feedback is especially welcome with suggestions for improving the driving directions on these birding drives. Additional tips for birding locations are also welcome.

Please send suggestions for additional county drives or edits for existing drives to:
hotspots@ohiobirds.org

Birders like to bird close to home and, naturally, the counties with higher populations in Ohio have many more checklists submitted. We have developed Birding Drives for “lightly birded” Ohio counties so that when your travels take you to a different part of the state you might add to the data about birds all across the state.

Counties marked with an asterisk (*) are the counties in Ohio with fewer than 2000 checklists submitted in eBird.

Birding Drives listed by County

Pickaway County
Battelle Darby Creek Birding Drive
Pickaway County Birding Drive

Pike County*
Pike County Birding Drive

Portage County
Berlin Lake Birding Drive
Portage County North Birding Drive
Portage County South Birding Drive

Preble County
Preble County Birding Drive

Putnam County*
Putnam County Birding Drive

Richland County
Charles Mill Lake Birding Drive
Clear Fork Reservoir Birding Drive
Mansfield Birding Drive
Pleasant Hill Lake Birding Drive
Richland B&O Trail Birding Drive
Richland County North Birding Drive

Ross County
Ross County Birding Drive

Sandusky County
Bellevue Birding Drive
Pickerel Creek Birding Drive

Scioto County
Shawnee State Forest OOS Birding Drive
Shawnee State Forest Panoram Birding Drive

Seneca County
Bellevue Birding Drive
Seneca County Birding Drive

Shelby County*
Shelby County Birding Drive

Stark County
Alliance Birding Drive
Berlin Lake Birding Drive
Canton Birding Drive

Summit County
Akron North Birding Drive
Akron South Birding Drive
Cuyahoga Valley National Park Birding Drive

Trumbull County
Trumbull County Birding Drive

Tuscarawas County
Tuscarawas County Birding Drive

Union County
Union County Birding Drive

Van Wert County*
Van Wert County Birding Drive

Vinton County
Vinton County Birding Drive
Zaleski State Forest Birding Drive

Warren County
Caesar Creek State Park Birding Drive

Washington County
Washington County Birding Drive

Wayne County
Funk Bottoms Birding Drive
Killbuck Marsh Birding Drive
Killbuck Marsh to Funk Bottoms Birding Drive
Wayne County Shorebird Drive
Wooster Area Birding Drive

Williams County*
Williams County Birding Drive

Wood County
Wood County Birding Drive

Wyandot County
Killdeer Plains Birding Drive