Southern WI flush with orioles, buntings, grosbeaks & more favorites
Southern WI backyards flush with colorful favorites
Backyards across southern Wisconsin are alive with Baltimore and orchard orioles, rose-breasted grosbeaks, ruby-throated hummingbirds, indigo buntings and scarlet tanagers. As usual, the action up north is lagging, especially in light of the largest May snowstorm in history across far northwestern counties. Nonetheless, the first rose-breasted grosbeaks have arrived.
Read more and see what's on tap for next week.
Birdathon donors fund priority bird projects, spurred bird-friendly Milwaukee Bucks arena
Donors to the Great Wisconsin Birdathon have helped make important gains for Wisconsin birds in recent years including funding the organization that spurred the Milwaukee Bucks to make their arena the first bird-friendly sports and entertainment arena in the world. A statewide survey of breeding birds, reintroduction of whooping cranes, and building populations of endangered piping plovers, terns and Kirtland's warblers are other important efforts made possible by Great Wisconsin Birdathon donors.