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Horicon Marsh Bird Club Program

Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

NOVEMBER 18th  (In Person and Zoom) Mark Naniot/Director & Co-founder of Wild Instincts Wildlife Rehabilitation Join us November 18th at 7 PM at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor center, N7725 Hwy 28 Horicon Wi, we will have Mark Naniot from Wild Instincts wildlife rehab facility. Mark Naniot has been mending orphaned and injured wildlife […]

Horicon Marsh bird Club Program

Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE DECEMBER 16th (in person and Zoom) Cathy & John Ley – Horicon Marsh Bird Club Members . Experience the Seven Continents Join us December 16 th 6:30pm  at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center, N7725 Hwy. 28, Horicon, WI where Horicon Marsh Bird Club members, John and Cathy Ley, will […]

January Meeting: Hawaii, Saving Native Seabirds and Forest Birds on Kauai

Barbara Heindl is a Wildlife ecologist from Madison, Wisconsin. She received a BS in Wildlife Ecology and a Masters in GIS and Cartography both from UW Madison. She has done Ornithological field work across North America including Alaska, New Mexico, Maine, Jamaica and Hawaii. Most notably she worked on Kauai Island for almost a decade […]

February Meeting – BIG YEAR BIRDING ADVENTURES

Please join us on February 17th  at 6:30 PM  see the zoom link below Lynn E. Barber was born in Wisconsin and has lived in Alaska, Oregon, North Carolina, Texas, South Dakota, Alaska again, and since 2021, Wisconsin again. Lynn’s passion for birding has shown itself in her love of doing birding big years, which […]

March Meeting -Journey North

Each spring, migratory species travel hundreds of miles to breeding areas in northern U.S. and Canada. In the fall, these migratory species make their way south again to overwintering ranges in Mexico and Central America. Journey North is a crowdsourced science program that harnesses the power of thousands of volunteers across North America to gain […]

April Meeting – Wood duck research

Wood Duck Research, Zoom meeting Andrew Greenawalt is a current Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His  research focuses on wood duck population  and migration chronology. Greenawalt used novel technology to understand migratory patterns, stopover locations, and annual cycles of wood ducks that breed in Wisconsin. He will soon develop reports and […]

Field Trip April 24th 8AM- 12PM

Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

Field trip April 24th  8AM-12PM Meet 8 AM at Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor center. We will car caravan from there. We will be looking for new migrating birds. HMBC Field trips are free and open to the public

Bird hike- May 19th 6PM-8PM

Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

Bird Hike  Meet at 6 PM Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center. We will walk the trails out to Indermuhle Island and back.

Field trip – Old Marsh Road

Field trip Old Marsh Road met Sunday June 12th  8 am the east end of Old Marsh road.  (Point Rd) We will walk out from there.  Spotting scopes are handy but not necessary. Target birds will be Yellow-headed Blackbirds, Black-necked stilts, rails, bitterns and gallinules https://horiconmarshbirdclub.com/locations/old-marsh-road-east-end/

September Meeting. Keeping Wisconsin birds healthy

Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

Join us on Sept 15 at 6:30PM at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center located at N7725 Hwy 28 between Horicon and Mayville. Our talk will be "An Overview of Causes of Wild Bird Mortality in Wisconsin" . What we can do to keep wild birds in Wisconsin healthy by Nancy Businga, Wildlife Disease […]

Marsh watch

Palmatory Street Overlook Palmatory Street Overlook @43.472687,-88.613839, Horicon, WI, United States

Join us at the new Palmatory st picnic shelter  starting Oct 15th 4:30PM. We'll watch what returns to the marsh to roost for the night. Cranes, geese, gulls, ducks and who knows what else. Bring along a picnic supper and enjoy the sunset.

Oct Meeting. Tim Hahn: Road Tripping for Birds – Planning Travel in Search of Life Birds.

Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center N7725 Highway 28, Horicon, WI, United States

Since Tim became a birder in 2002, he primarily stuck to birding in Wisconsin, but given the opportunity in 2021, he began traveling America in search of life birds. By leveraging eBird and other applications, he created custom travel itineraries to efficiently target life birds. Tim will share his experiences planning travel and searching for […]