Anti-rat tactics, like cats and poison, kill wildlife. What to do?
North Park Village Birding - Hawks Continuing
Help Restore Habitat for Birds at River Park
Can you pitch in to help us buy some shrubs? Chicago Audubon, the River Park Advisory Council and Chicago Park District plan to create migratory landbird habitat by adding native shrubs and understory trees. This project will expand the capacity of the habitat at Ronan Park and extend a quality riparian ecosystem farther north.
A Year of Helping Birds: Responsible Pet Ownership
North Park Village Birding - Hawks
We Welcome Our First Executive Director
Death by a Thousand Cuts
A Year of Helping Birds: Become a Community Scientist
Searching for the Swamp Candle
UPDATE - Chicago Audubon Society calls for a name change
A Closer Look at Tern Primary Patterns
Endangered Black-crowned Night-heron Study - You Can Help!
Exploring the Bird Life of a Woodland: The Sauk Trail Preserves Blitz
A Year of Helping Birds: Go Birding!
Identification of Swallows in Flight
ID of Common and Forster’s Terns in Spring
Common Tern and Forster’s Tern are subtle birds that create a lot of confusion for birders, especially in places like Chicago where we see them both in small numbers during migration. The field marks for these species are subtle and variable, however even when people put in time to learn the field marks, they may struggle if they don’t know what to prioritize.
CAS Native Plant Sale a success for the birds!
A Year of Helping Birds: Avoid Harmful Pesticides
Pesticides are used to kill unwanted pests - insects and rodents, mainly, and they’re used everywhere: on farms, in our homes, lawns and gardens. Tragically, pesticides don’t just stop at their intended targets - often they kill birds (and bees and butterflies and other animals), resulting in at least 67 million bird deaths every year in the U.S. There are safer alternatives.
A Year of Helping Birds: Make Migration Safe: Windows, Lights and Bird-Safe Design
Every year, up to a billion birds are killed by crashing into windows, greatly reducing already decreasing overall bird populations. It’s a terrible death, killing birds in their prime as they migrate to start new families in their breeding grounds. We can prevent many of these deaths by turning off lights at night during migration, and making windows less reflective.
