There are several notable birding areas around campus.

• The "front campus" green space between Hilltop Dr. and SR-59 contains many well-established deciduous and coniferous trees and a large stand of dense shrubs near the fashion building; it hosts warblers, vireos, thrushes, and sparrows during spring migration.
• The woodlot adjacent to the outdoor track and Cunningham Hall hosts passerines during spring migration.
• Water retention ponds along Campus Center Dr., near parking lots R-12 and S-42, seasonally have wetland species and occasional shorebirds during migration.
• The fields, forests, and prairie grass reserve around the student recreation center and Allerton Sports Complex, along Campus Center Dr.

There are a number of Peregrine Falcon observations around the library dating back to 2013.

Kent State University is a large, primarily residential, public research university in Kent. The university was established in 1910 as a teacher-training school. The first classes were held in 1912 at various locations and in temporary buildings in Kent and the first buildings of the original campus opened the following year. Since then, the university has grown to include many additional baccalaureate and graduate programs of study in the arts and sciences, research opportunities, as well as over 1,000 acres and 119 buildings on the Kent campus.
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