Birds have inspired artists since humans first began creating visual images - on cave walls, vessels, textiles and paintings. Join Chicago area birder and art history professor Mark Pohlad as he shares highlights of birds in art, using local examples of birds and art.

It’s not all about color and size - Improve your bird identification skills by learning several ways to observe and differentiate the birds you see.This presentation by long-time birder Roberta Asher will guide you through several steps you can take to narrow the field of possibilities in the process of identifying a bird, using size, silhouettes, sounds and more.

Try a new way of birding with Chicago Ornithological and Chicago Audubon! We’ve teamed up to bring you the safety of birding alone with the fun and information of birding with a group. This week’s locations are the Evanston and Wilmette Bird Habitats!

Try a new way of birding with Chicago Ornithological and Chicago Audubon! We’ve teamed up to bring you the safety of birding alone with the fun and information of birding with a group. This episode's focus is on Big Marsh Park on the southeast side of Chicago.

Try a new way of birding with Chicago Ornithological and Chicago Audubon! We’ve teamed up to bring you the safety of birding alone with the fun and information of birding with a group. This week’s locations are Northerly Island, McCormick Place and Burnham Wildlife Corridor!

Deja Perkins is an urban ecologist, science communicator and birder who grew up on the southeast side of Chicago. With a focus on environmental justice, Deja is one of the co-organizers of the #BlackBirdersWeek social media movement and currently the President of BlackAFinSTEM, the membership organization that organized Black Birders Week.

No reason to be blue. Birds are everywhere! Now that we've been enjoying yard and neighborhood birds more and more, you might like some tips on basic identification skills.

Meet some the waterfowl, shorebirds, and more – including several threatened and endangered species - that take advantage of Cook County Forest Preserve lakes and wetlands.

Try a new way of birding with Chicago Ornithological and Chicago Audubon! Because birding in groups still feels unsafe for many of us, we’ve teamed up to bring you the safety of birding alone with the fun and information of birding with a group.

Peter Cahill will share some inspiring photos and stories about the birds of Guatemala and bird conservation in the cloud forest.

Wetland systems are some of the most at risk habitats around the globe, and especially in the Great Lakes. They provide valuable services for people, and the plants and animals that rely on them. Join us for a Zoom presentation and discussion with Auriel Fournier - Director of Forbes Biological Station, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois.

Once on the Endangered Species List and extirpated in Illinois from 1951 until 1986, the Peregrine Falcon population now exceeds historic levels.

Join Mark Pohlad, from the History of Art and Architecture, DePaul University, and North Park Village Nature Center staff for a special presentation––the birds found at the Nature Center as seen through the art and research of the painter-naturalist, John James Audubon.

Presented by Dr. Jeffery Wells, who has been at the forefront of increasing protected areas in Canada’s Boreal Forest region where over 154 million acres have been protected since 2000.