From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Learn about ABA birding ethics and how to ensure other people and, most importantly, birds are minimally impacted during your trip. Zoom presentation.
Registration Required: Register at https://babbethics.eventbrite.com/
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Learn about ABA birding ethics and how to ensure other people and, most importantly, birds are minimally impacted during your trip. Zoom presentation.
Registration Required: Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-a-better-birder-birding-ethics-tickets-541494212767
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Learn about ABA birding ethics and how to ensure other people and, most importantly, birds are minimally impacted during your trip. Zoom presentation.
Registration Required: Register at https://babb6-2022.eventbrite.com.
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Technology can be a valuable tool when birding. Learn about the most important technology for birders, binoculars and well as apps and other tech to use.
Registration required: https://2022-babb-3.eventbrite.com/.
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Join a naturalist to learn about how to identify birds. Learn tips, tricks, and hints to apply when looking at birds. This will be a zoom presentation.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-a-better-birder-intro-to-bird-id-tickets-199356589927
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Join a naturalist to learn about how to get started birding. Learn about the history of birding, what equipment you might need and birds to expect. This will be a zoom presentation.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-a-better-birder-getting-started-tickets-199355225847
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Have you ever had a question about birds? Do you wish you knew how to get started birding? How about how to get more birds to your yard? Join Facebook Live from Sandy Ridge Center: https://www.facebook.com/SandRidgeNatureCenter/videos/
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Just as there are rules to any sport, there are rules to birding. Learn about the guidelines and expectations to be an ethical birder.
This is a Zoom presentation. You will receive an email from JESSICA BECKER the day of the program with the zoom link. This will be the only way to access the link.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-a-better-birder-birding-ethics-tickets-191115801507
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Have you ever had a question about birds? Do you wish you knew how to get started birding? How about how to get more birds to your yard? Program Specialist Jessica Becker is here to help! Catch her live as she answers your most burning questions regarding the birds of Cook County. Join Facebook Live from Sandy Ridge Center: https://www.facebook.com/Sand-Ridge-Nature-Center-485394718215678/videos/
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Have you ever had a question about birds? Do you wish you knew how to get started birding? How about how to get more birds to your yard? Program Specialist Jessica Becker is here to help! Catch her live as she answers your most burning questions regarding the birds of Cook County. Join Facebook Live from Sandy Ridge Center: https://www.facebook.com/Sand-Ridge-Nature-Center-485394718215678/videos/
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Join us as a representative from the Forest Preserves introduces you to technology that can be used to enhance your birding experience.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-a-better-birder-birding-and-technology-tickets-151691869465
From West Cook Wild Ones:
Meet Chicago's Bird Whisperer Pam Karlson and Learn Her Secrets!
Inviting birds into gardens by creating healthy habitat is a joyful way to connect with nature and help support bird populations. This presentation features Pam’s photographs of the Chicago bird garden she created and its bird visitors, illustrating how it’s possible to attract over 100 bird species.
Tips include landscape enhancements, practices and plant selection, with an emphasis on natives and nativars. Chicagoland’s importance along the migratory route, bird species diversity, habitat, diet/foraging, nesting, supplemental support and citizen science will also be discussed. Doug Tallamy’s latest book “Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard”, includes Pam’s city garden, exemplifying the power of urban lots.
Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/birds-in-the-garden-creating-enjoying-a-bird-oasis-tickets-151740952273
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Join them for a Zoom presentation where they will give tips on choosing native plants to beautify your real estate and provide food for birds. A Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the program begins.
Registration Required: Register at https://nativeplantsforbirds.eventbrite.com.
Photo by Kris DaPra
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
In partnership with the LaGrange Public Library, join them for a Zoom presentation where they will give tips on choosing native plants to beautify your real estate and provide food for birds. A Zoom link will be emailed 1 hour before the program begins.
Register at https://lagrangelibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?eventid=6367.
Photo by Kris DaPra
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Have you ever had a question about birds? Do you wish you knew how to get started birding? How about how to get more birds to your yard? Program Specialist Jessica Becker is here to help! Catch her live as she answers your most burning questions regarding the birds of Cook County. Join Facebook Live from Sand Ridge Nature Center.
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Join naturalists at Sagawau Environmental Learning Center in the Forest Preserves of Cook County for this special event featuring:
An introduction to piping plovers by FPCC naturalist and Sagawau bird bander Leslie DeCourcey
A screening of the 24-min documentary Monty and Rose. "Monty and Rose" tells the story of a pair of endangered Piping Plovers attempting to nest on a busy beach in Chicago. The short, independent documentary chronicles these special birds and an unpredictable series of events including a proposed music festival that propelled them to national headlines.
Q & A with filmmaker Bob Dolgan
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Have you ever had a question about birds? Do you wish you knew how to get started birding? How about how to get more birds to your yard? Program Specialist Jessica Becker is here to help! Catch her live as she answers your most burning questions regarding the birds of Cook County. Join Facebook Live from Sand Ridge Nature Center.
From Environmentalists of Color, Equiticity, Organic Oneness, and their partners:
Join environmentalists, healers, and justice activists for bird watching and bike tour through North Lawndale and Little Village to learn about key sites that demonstrate a path towards healing and justice. Meet at Douglass Park, 1600 S. Albany, Southeast corner or Ogden and Albany, Chicago. Participants will visit African Heritage Garden in North Lawndale, as well as Semillas de Justica and the Hilco site in Little Village.
From West Cook Wild Ones:
Learn about Illinois' specialized dunes habitats with Kathleen Marie Garness, Scientific Affiliate with Field Museum and Morton Arboretum.
Illinois' duneslands are the geologically youngest natural areas in our region. They are also under intense pressure from development as well as erosion. Hosah Park is part of an incredibly rare and precious ecological area earlier called the Waukegan Moorlands, described in detail as early as 1927 by ecologist Herman Silas Pepoon. It was recently designated a Wetland of International Importance by the RAMSAR Convention. In its 23 acres there are more than 220 native species of native plants. Representing just .5% of the total area, it holds 30% of the species! It is also an eBird hotspot with over 160 species of birds recorded from it since 1979. Kathleen's presentation will highlight both the ubiquitous and the most rare, and describe many of the unique adaptations and faunal relationships that have allowed them to survive in such a harsh environment.
About the Speaker
Kathleen Garness is author of the Field Museum's Common Plant Families of the Chicago Region and the Dunesland Habitat Guide. A woodland habitat guide is in the works. As steward of one of the Chicago region's highest quality duneland sites, she has had the opportunity to become familiar with these rare and hardy species that call our lakeshores their home.
Enjoy a sampling of Ms. Garness' work:
Ms. Garness' botanical illustrations were featured by the North American Orchid Conservation Center and can be viewed by following the link.
Photo credit: Kathleen Marie Garness
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
A guide from the Chicago Audubon Society will lead a walk to look for migrating birds. Binoculars available to loan.
All participants are required to wear masks and practice physical distancing.
Registration Required: Call Trailside at 708-366-6530.
A VIRTUAL SCREENING EVENT + DISCUSSION
Co-presented by One Earth Film Festival and Environmentalists of Color
FILM DESCRIPTIONS: “This Land” is a short film that tells the story of land access told through a journey of inclusion and empowerment. Runner and filmmaker Faith E. Briggs used to run through the streets of Brooklyn every morning. Now, she’s running 150 miles through three U.S. National Monuments that lay in the thick of the controversy around public lands.
Wildlife ecology professor and birder J. Drew Lanham has written “Nine Rules for the Black Birdwatcher,” “Birding While Black,” and “The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature.” He will be featured in short films, including “Behind the Binoculars,” which shows his care for what’s behind the binoculars (the people) as well as what’s in front of them (the birds).
Stay for thought-provoking post-film discussion to unpack history, reframe safety and learn about opportunities for action with filmmaker Faith Briggs, film subject Drew Lanham, and Chicago-area environmentalists of color:
Olatunji Oboi Reed is the President & CEO of The Equiticity Racial Equity Movement. He is a racial equity tactician, working at the intersection of community, culture, and health.
Candace Clark: Kandeaux the Farm Plug is a regenerative practitioner, pursuing a PhD in Integrative Development and Public Policy.
Facilitator: Kyra Woods (she/her) works with the Sierra Club Illinois Chapter as the Ready for 100 Chicago campaign coordinator. She believes that Chicago’s monumental commitment can lead to significant economic, health, and environmental benefits for residents if steeped in the values of racial equity, justice, and community leadership.
Join the Chicago Audubon Society at Wolf Road Prairie to witness the dramatic spring courtship flights of the woodcock. Registration required at 708-366-6530.
Learn about the best bird foods, feeders and landscape elements to benefit resident winter birds. You’ll even make a simple bird feeder to take home!
Sponsored by the Forest Preserves of Cook County.
Learn basic silhouettes, field marks and calls. Don't forget your binoculars because the class will finish with a short walk to practice your new skills through Austin Gardens! Cost is $20 for residents and $25 for non-residents.
The Forest Preserves of Cook County may surprise you with its new programming. Conservation@Home, Bird the Preserves, and the Greater Maywood Paddling Programs are just a few new offerings. Join West Cook Wild Ones as they explore the programming that goes beyond Forest Preserves’ borders to target new audiences and tap into community support.
Presenter Nina Baki is the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Forest Preserves of Cook County. Over the past 15 years, Nina has worked in the field of conservation connecting people to the outdoors through interpretive programs and activities. Currently, Nina works on outreach and engagement opportunities to promote the Forest Preserves and its resources, exposing people to nature and sharing how to live more sustainable and healthy life for themselves and the environment.
Enjoy a guided hike to listen and watch behavior of nesting birds with John Elliott of Chicago Audubon. Binoculars available.
