Bird Monitoring Workshops

Chicago Wilderness and the local Forest Preserve Districts need data about bird use of local preserves to help with their planning, and the Bird Conservation Network (BCN) Census is working with them to provide that data. At least three major studies will use this year’s monitoring data, as well as local land managers.

Bird monitoring workshops will be held this spring in three locations. New monitors and existing monitors are both invited. Would you like to put your birding skills to use for a good cause? Spend the afternoon with kindred spirits and hear the latest updates on how our data is being used. All birders from Lake, McHenry, Cook, Kane, and Will counties, and north west Indiana who can identify breeding birds by sight and sound are welcome. If there is a workshop in the county you want to monitor in, it is best to attend that one if you can.

Kane County
Saturday, March 19; 9:30 a.m. -11:30 a.m.
39W115 Main St. Batavia west of Nelson Lake Road, behind a cement silo.
For more information: (630) 232-5980

Cook County
Saturday, April 2; 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Camp Sagawa
12545 W. 111th Street, Lemont
If you like, come at 10 a.m. for a bird banding demonstration, and bring a lunch.
Please register. Call (847) 965-9239 ext. 21 and leave a message with your name, phone number and email address.

Lake County
Sunday, April 10; 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Ryerson Conservation Area
21950 North Riverwoods Road, Deerfield
For more information: (847) 968-3329

We have sites available in many habitats. A special focus this year is on grassland birds, so if you love grassland birds and have been thinking of getting involved, this would be a great year to try it.

For more information about the BCN Census, visit www.bcnbirds.org, or call (847) 965-9239, ext. 23.