Are you ready for spring migration? What about your home? If you haven’t applied any bird-safe measures to your windows, we are encouraging everyone in our community to go the extra mile this year to protect our migrants on their journey. We are partnering with Canada-based Feather Friendly to provide you the tools and information you need.
Read the latest of Dan Lory’s Thursday thoughts on birds of the Chicago region. This week’s feature is a the hard to miss but easy to mistake, Snowy Egret.
The Bird Conservation Network (BCN) is recruiting volunteers to collect information about birds throughout the Chicago region in 2021 with an emphasis on breeding birds.
Read the first installment of 2021 of Dan Lory’s Thursday thoughts on birds of the Chicago region. We’re starting the year off featuring the Red-shouldered Hawk!
Read the latest installment of Dan Lory’s Thursday thoughts on birds of the Chicago region, this week, a retrospective quiz on the birds highlighted in 2020!
Read the latest installment of Dan Lory’s Thursday thoughts on birds of the Chicago region, this week, a retrospective quiz on the birds highlighted in 2020!
Read the latest installment of Dan Lory’s Thursday thoughts on birds of the Chicago region, this week, a double feature, highlighting the Downy Woodpecker and Hairy Woodpecker!
2020 ended up being an odd year to start COS’s first ever bird banding station at Big Marsh! Our banding team was not even sure we would be able to get the banding station up and running this year. But after 5 successful dates in the field between June and August, our first banding season wrapped up for the summer.
Chicago Ornithological Society is proud to announce the newest project as part of our conservation initiative in the Calumet region: a bird banding station located at Big Marsh Park in Chicago.
