Awards & Recognition

Southern Delaware Tourism Award: December 2021

Clockwise from center: Mariah Calagione, Dogfish Head Co-Founder; Jim Rapp, Delmarva Birding Weekends; Sophia Smecker, Dogfish Head Senior Marketing & Events Manager; Mark Carter, Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence Director; Andrew Greeley, Dogfish INNkeeper.

On December 8, 2021, the Winter Delmarva Dogfish BirdINNg Weekend was recognized by Southern Delaware Tourism with their Pioneer Award! The award was presented to Delmarva Birding Weekends and Dogfish Head for creating a new tourism product developed to meet changing consumer behavior and demands, and for being the first to apply a new activity or service that caters to visitors of Sussex County. Read more here.

White-winged Scoter photo courtesy of Frode Jacobsen. Harbor and Gray Seals photo courtesy of Rita Modesti.

Maryland Tourism Award: November 2018

Top photo, left to right: Julie Widdowson, Director of Somerset County Tourism; Dave Wilson, Delmarva Birding Weekends; Liz Fitzsimmons, Director of the Maryland Division of Tourism, Film and the Arts; Lisa Challenger, Director of Beach and Beyond/Worcester County Tourism; Mike Gill, Maryland Secretary of Commerce; Rick Howarth, President of Six Flags America and Chair of the Maryland Tourism Development Board; Jim Rapp, Delmarva Birding Weekends; Duke Marshall, Owner of Drum Point Market and Chair of the Somerset County Tourism Commission. Brown Pelican photo courtesy of Nienke DC. Sunset birding photo courtesy of John Whaley.

Delmarva Birding Weekends​, along with Worcester County Tourism​ and Somerset County Tourism​, was presented with the Transactional Opportunities Award from Maryland​ Tourism during the Maryland Tour & Travel Summit held in November 2018.

The award was presented for successfully creating tourism products and programming to bring in revenue. The award recognized our summer 2018 Smith Island Pelican Tours and Maryland coastal bays Sunset Seabird Safaris. Read more here.

Jim Rapp, Duke Marshall and Dave Wilson with the Transactional Opportunities Award presented by Maryland Tourism.

Baltimore of Baltimore Award: August 2017

Jim Rapp and Erin Brown Reed Miller of Patterson Park Audubon Center at the Best of Baltimore award party, August 2017.

In August 2017, Delmarva Birding Weekends and Patterson Park Audubon Center were recognized for the Baltimore Birding Weekend, which was awarded the “Best New Eco Event” by Baltimore Magazine.