NORTH CHESTERFIELD, VA – Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, the world's leading manufacturer in high performance sports optics, once again takes great pleasure in its continued sponsorship of New Jersey Audubon's World Series of Birding.
Since 1984, this event has changed the birding landscape and has raised almost $9 million for bird conservation. Through the efforts of WSB teams, money has been raised to benefit a number of causes, clubs and organizations, nationally and internationally. New Jersey is the playing field. Teams choose where they want their pledges to go. It is that simple. So gather your teammates and share in the excitement of North America's most celebrated conservation event – the World Series of Birding.
Carl Zeiss will once again sponsor the ZEISS Youth Birding Competition. The youth birding teams are comprised ofthree divisions (Div A Gr. 1-5; Div B Gr. 6-8; Div C Gr. 9-12) of mixed ages, grades, schools, or groups who participate within their division. New Jersey Audubon education staff works with these groups to make the event an educationalexperience as well as a fund raiser for school, youth, or scout groups conservation projects.
ZEISS is also pleased to continue the Pete Dunne - Carl Zeiss Future Leaders in Birding Award, introduced in 2008 and provided to the winning Division C Youth Team. The award passes to next year's winning team after this year's competition, and so on perpetually. The award is to both honor the founder and the future of the event.
Pete Dunne will again lead TEAM ZEISS in the Adult Division competition. One of birding's most familiar figures, Pete is best known for his many books on birds and bird watching. He is NJ Audubon's Ambassador for Birding and founder of the World Series of Birding, in which he has served as the Captain of the Zeiss Birding Team since 1985. Other team captains include NJA Board Members Mark Levy, Karen Thompson and Bill Boyle, author of Birds of New Jersey.
Start planning now and we will see you at the finish line in Cape May!
About the ZEISS Group
ZEISS is an international leader in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. The more than 24,000 employees of ZEISS generated revenue of about 4.2 billion euros in fiscal year 2012/13. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany. ZEISS has been contributing to technological progress for more than 160 years. ZEISS develops and produces solutions for the semiconductor, automotive and mechanical engineering industries, biomedical research and medical technology, as well as eyeglass lenses, camera and cine lenses, binoculars and planetariums. ZEISS is present in over 40 countries around the globe with more than 40 production facilities, around 50 sales and service locations and over 20 research and development sites. Carl Zeiss AG is fully owned by the Carl Zeiss Stiftung (Carl Zeiss Foundation).
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