Shanin Abreu interviews Joe Phipps, who set a new McLean County Big Year Record in 2016 with 244 species. Shanin: […]
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News & Press
Knox County CBC Musings by Mike Baum
Riley and I left Chicago a little after 4 AM Monday, Dec. 12th and arrived at the Victoria grasslands shortly […]
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Augustana sells environmental lab for $2.1M
The laboratory, the largest of the school’s field stations, is 395 acres of upland forest and wetland habitats 80 miles […]
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Augustana College Sells Most of Outdoor Lab
The Illinois Audubon Society has bought most of a large nature preserve in Lee County. Earlier this month it finalized […]
Read More → Rare Bird Alert – 11-Dec-2016
Mountain Bluebird: Carroll (North) – Young birder, Ethan Brown, and his mom, Cindy, photographed a Mountain Bluebird along Spring Lake […]
Read More → 2016 IOS Grants Awards
One of IOS’s objectives is “To promote scientific research and education in order to improve knowledge and awareness of birds […]
Read More → IORC Update – 25-Nov-2016
The Illinois Ornithological Records Committee (IORC) recently concluded evaluation of 26 records of occurrence of rare birds in Illinois, accepting […]
Read More → Rare Bird Alert – 27-Nov-2016
Rufous Hummingbird: Saline County (South) – On 27-Nov-2016, Cathy DeNeal has a hatch year female Rufous Hummingbird coming to her […]
Read More → Rare Bird Alert – 20-Nov-2016
California Gull: Peoria County (North) – Matthew Winks and Mike Ingram found a second cycle California Gull on the Peoria […]
Read More → 16th Annual Gull Frolic
February 11, 2017 Start Time – 9:30 a.m. (please note the later start time). The Gull Frolic is a unique […]
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