Birds, Birds, Birds…
Bobolink photo by Lee Ramsey
Chicago Wilderness and Audubon work together with citizen scientists and other organizations to monitor birds in the Chicago Region:
- The BCN Survey: an ongoing survey of birds in our region's natural areas, designed to give specific information to land managers
- The Important Bird Areas (IBA) program:an international effort to identify, conserve, and monitor a network of sites that provide essential habitat for bird populations
- The Migrant Bird Habitat Study: a study conducted in April and May of 2001, 2002, and 2003 to identify tree species that are used more often than others by foraging migrant birds in spring
- Declining & Imperiled Birds: a 2007 analyses by National Audubon Society of the state of birds in the Chicago Region
- The Chicago Wilderness Grassland Bird Blitz: the 2003 and 2004 study of more than 120 grassland birds throughout the Chicago Wilderness region
- The Chicago Wilderness Shrubland Bird Blitz: the 2008 study shrubland birds throughout the Chicago Wilderness region
- Chicago Area Bird Conservation Resources: A list of resources for bird conservation and study
- The 2009 Chicago Wilderness Bird Blitz including Lee Ramsey's detailed Habitat Map of Birds of Concern at Poplar Creek.
- The 2009 Restoring Large Prairies in the Chicago Region
: A Summary of Proven and Promising Techniques. - The 2011 Bird Blitz at Spring Creek.
- The Woodland Bird Study
- Plan to Meet Illinois Wildlife Action Plan Population Targets for Grassland Species of Concern in Kane County Forest Preserves (Report for Illinois Department of Natural Resources by Audubon Chicago Region finalized in June, 2011)
- The 2012-2013 Red-headed Woodpecker Blitz.
- Help guide the planning for a future (2014) Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz by providing preliminary data this upcoming spring! Details, including a review of the 2010/11 Winter Blitz, can be found on this link.
