Meet at Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center located at N7725 Highway 28 in Horicon. We will hike out from the center and search for spring migrants and marsh species. Free.
Snapshot Wisconsin, Let’s Discover Our Wildlife Together. Presented by Annie McDonnell. Snapshot Wisconsin is a state-wide, volunteer-based wildlife research project utilizing trail cameras to detect wildlife populations. We will discuss the history of the project, an overview of its scientific applications, and how members of the public can get involved. Annie will share some of […]
New! Swift night out September 18th 6:45 PM- 7:45PM 105 N Dickason Blvd, Columbus, WI 53925 This is the Columbus city hall building. We will meet in the parking lot on the north side of the building. We will watch migrating Chimney swifts come to roost as they enter the chimneys of the historic building […]
OCTOBER 21st (Zoom) Join us for a Zoom presentation on October 21st at 7 PM by American Bird Conservancy’s Dr. Bryan Lenz to discuss the scale of the window collision problem, how birds see the world, the science behind collisions solutions, and what you can do to keep your windows from killing birds. As Collisions […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Field trip-Winter birds Sunday February 20th 8 am Meet at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center, We will car caravan to several locations to look for Redpolls, Crossbills, Snow buntings, and Snowy owls plus anything else we see along the way. We plan on ending about noon. Horicon Marsh Bird Club field trips are […]
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 […]
Meet at 8 AM March 19th at the McDonalds Hwy 33 & 151 in Beaver Dam. From here we will caravan to open water spots on Beaver Dam Lake and the Beaver Dam River. We will search for waterfowl of all kinds. This area is generally the first open water that migrating waterfowl seek out. […]
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 […]
