The Cleveland Bird Calendar was started in 1905 by Professor Francis Herrick of the department of biology of Western Reserve University and was continued until 1931 by him and his friends.  Then the Calendar became a joint project of the University and the Cleveland Bird Club now called the Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland.  In 1938, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History replaced Western Reserve University as a sponsor for the Cleveland Bird Calendar and jointly published it with the Cleveland Bird Club until 1943.  At this time, the Kirtland Bird Club accepted responsibility for editorship in cooperation with the Cleveland Bird Club with sponsorship by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 

As an historical aside, the Calendar in 1943 was printed as a part of Bird-life, a magazine of the Cleveland Bird Club instead of in its stand-alone format in order to save paper during the war. From about 1951 to 1954, only the KBC published the Calendar with museum sponsorship. Then in 1954, due to the severing of ties with the museum, the KBC published the Calendar alone, only to re-partner with the Cleveland Audubon Society from 1955-60 by using the Cleveland Audubon Society Bulletin as the CBC’s venue. Then the KBC took full responsibility for the Calendar again with the sponsorship of the museum.  This is how it continues to operate today. 

The funds for printing the Calendar come from the members’ dues and generous donors.  Many club members, as well as some non-members, provide the field reports and articles for the Calendar, which itself is archived in the museum library and starting in 2005 on this site; the original individual reports (where they exist) are filed in the museum archives. Source: Article written by Dwight Chasar