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A recently-passed bill renders much of Indiana’s wetlands vulnerable to development with broad-reaching effects on everything from bird populations to …
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In 2020, I set a new record for the highest number of bird species seen in a calendar year in Cook County.
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When I arrived, Rose was fidgety on the nest. July 7, 2021, was another hot one on Chicago’s beaches. The humidity was thick in the air as beachgoers s…
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Key marsh birds like the Black-Crowned Night Heron and the Pied-billed Grebe rely on a healthy hemi-marsh to thrive
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Bird sanctuary closed through August to construct accessible path that is part of 2015 site plan.
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There were only a few hundred of these "jack pine birds" left as recently as the late 1980s.
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A Wally World moment at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary.
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Glossy, iridescent, raspy and cacophonous, these blackbirds deserve our respect.
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“Everybody is trying to learn as much as they can about Piping Plovers. None of us were around in 1940-something when this happened last time.”
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The good, the bad and the reality of shorebird life.
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Separated from food, water and gear, and plagued by mosquitoes, a canoe trip that became an epic misadventure.
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Black Birders Week has shifted perceptions and upended assumptions about who birders are and what birding can be.
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