Nature Canada, in collaboration with our local partners the Ottawa Field Naturalists Club and the Club des Ornithologues de l’Outaouais, and our BirdLife Partner Bird Studies Canada, and thanks to the support of Swarovski Optik, a major sponsor of the Global Congress, provided field trip opportunities to hundreds of delegates from around the world at the BirdLife Global Congress held in Ottawa from June 18 to 22.  Trip participants were treated to great birds at three local hotspots: Gatineau Park, a large federally-owned park that connects the city of Gatineau and the Ottawa River corridor with the heavily forested Laurentian shield to the north; Mer Bleue, a large bog and wetland, owned also by the Federal Government’s National Capital Commission, and Mud Lake Natural Area, an urban natural area along the Ottawa River within the Lac Deschenes- Ottawa River Important Bird Area.   Below are the lists of birds observed on the outings, as well as a few images of the enchanted participants.  We are grateful to the volunteer experts from the two local clubs who helped organize and led these outings including: Bob Cermack,Mark Gawn,Roy John, Bernie Ladouceur, Dave Moore, Rémy Poulin, René Séguin, Jen Spallin and Nina Stavlund from the Ottawa Field Naturalist Club, andRéal Bisson, Rodolphe Dubois , André Cloutier,Donald Dallaire, Garry McNulty, and Daniel Toussaint from le Club des Ornithologues de l’Outaouais.  I would also like to thank  Elizabeth Gammel, Justin Peter, Robert Alvo,  Carla Sbert, Monique Boivin, Colin Gaskell, Jody Alair, Sarah Kirkpatrick-Wahl, Rene Seguin, Linda Burr, Diane Lepage for their help with the crepuscular trip to Gatineau Park on June 18th, as well as the staff at Gatineau Park for their support for this outing.