Winter is a great time to appreciate gulls, and to experience migrants from the north. Learn all about local Gulls in this informative read by Drew McPartlin.
Voice Your Support for Progress on Saving the Migratory Bird Treaty Act -- and Birds!
Chasing and Misidentifying Birds - Review of Field Notes of an Unintentional Birder - A Memoir
Notes From A Casual Birder: On Pileated Woodpeckers
Follow That Bird to the 121st Christmas Bird Count
Native Plant Gardening Especially Important for Migrating Birds
It’s a good time to start dreaming - and planning - your garden. Chicago area native gardens are especially important for migrating birds because millions of birds migrate though our area every Spring and Fall - and native plants provide them with the nourishment they need to make their long journeys.
Christmas Bird Count 2020 Roundup
Poet's Corner: Up in a Cottonwood by Ursula K. LeGuin
Notes from a Casual Birder: On Evening Grosbeaks
Looking, Listening and Learning: Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior by John Kricher
Monty & Rose Updates
Monty and Rose have been spotted in their wintering grounds recently. Monty is in Texas, and Rose in Florida.
Read more at Chicago Piping Plovers website.
President's End-of Year Letter
Notes from a Casual Birder: On Jennifer Ackerman’s The Bird Way
Jennifer Ackerman has made a name for herself amongst the general public with her 2016 New York Times bestseller The Genius of Birds where she explored the many ways in which birds of all species use their intelligence to survive and thrive in the natural world. This year, she returned to this same avian world with a new book titled The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Penguin Press, 2020).
Bird Classics: The Oven Bird by Robert Frost
The More You Know: Local Names Grow in Meaning
Christmas Bird Count 2020
'Tis the Season to join friends, fellow birders and conservationists in one of the most important citizen science efforts for birds - the 121st annual Christmas bird count. Sponsored and coordinated by National Audubon, the annual effort has grown from 27 people on 25 counts, Dec. 25, 1900, to 81,601 observers in 2,646 counts last season.
