Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center

Join us at 6:30 PM to hear A Wonderful Happening: Breeding Black-necked Stilts at Horicon Marsh. A comprehensive 4-year study of Black-necked Stilt breeding behavior, nesting success, habitat selection and adaptation at Horicon National Wildlife Refuge. Daryl Christensen is an award-winning field researcher whose passion for rare and endangered bird monitoring covers six decades of […]

Wood Duck Research, Andrew Greenawalt was  a current Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. His  research focused  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 manuscripts for […]

March 4: Nest Box Seminar, 8:30-12:30pm.  Interested in birdhouses, but don’t know where to begin? Wondering what you can do to help cavity nesting animals? Head to the Horicon Marsh Education & Visitor Center on Saturday, March 4th from 9 AM – 1 PM to bolster your nesting knowledge. Speakers will discuss popular nest boxes, […]

February 18: Eagle Adventure Bus Tour 1-4pm.  Bald eagles overwinter in many places in Wisconsin, and recent years have seen an increase in their numbers around Horicon Marsh.  Meet at the Horicon Marsh Education and Visitor Center, this guided bus tour will take you to areas that have held Bald Eagles in the past. Bring […]

Due to Winter weather advisory tonight's program  will be zoom only. Each fall and spring, millions of birds migrate via the Mississippi corridor, one of the premier flyways of North America. An average of 90,000 raptors and hundreds of thousands of other migratory birds are counted annually during the fall and spring counts conducted by […]

February 4: Winter Birds Bus Tour: 3-5:30 pm.  Whether you are a new or experienced birder, this guided bus tour offers an exciting chance to spot some of Horicon’s winter bird visitors.  DNR staff and members of the Horicon Marsh Bird Club will take you to all the hotspots as we search for beautiful birds […]

Join us at 6:30 PM for our speaker  Matthew Young , President and Founder of the Finch Research Network. Birders are often delighted to observe winter finches during the winter, and the Winter Finch Forecast is one of the most highly anticipated birding/ornithological reports of the year. I'll plan to talk about finch irruptions, the […]

December 16: Owl Prowl: 6:30-8:30pm.   Join us for a presentation featuring LIVE owls in the auditorium. Animal ambassadors from Marsh Haven Nature Center will allow us to see the amazing adaptations that owls have. Then don your warm layers as we walk out to Indermuehle Island to call for owls. It will be a HOOT!  

Join us at 6:30 PM. Our speaker will be Eric Kilburg, Dodge county's new Wildlife Biologist.  He will talk about managing water levels for birds. Wetland habitat suitability for birds is driven by vegetation structure and composition. Together, these components determine the quantity and quality of cover and food available.   As the wetland manager, Eric […]

Join us at 6:30 PM  Our program for this month will be Speaker Mark Martin, care taker of  Madison' Audubon's  Goose Pond Sanctuary. The focus will be on the management of the 730 acres of prairie and wetland habitat Goose Pond Sanctuary and the wildlife found there. Two hundred and seventy-one species are on the […]

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 […]

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 […]