What I love most about juncos is that even a casual nature watcher can find them, and enjoy their spritely antics on a dreary ...
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is celebrating 100 years of conservation and service to the people of Illinois throughout 2025. The department was established July 1, 1925, as the ...
The dapper black and yellow bobolink likes the Chicago area so much he flies here every spring from South America — a journey of about 6,000 miles. By no means depleted, the plucky visitor goes on to ...
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In Illinois: 'Sew a bird' to save a bird

By Kate Mothes for Arts Midwest. Broadcast version by Judith Ruiz-Branch for Illinois News Connection reporting for the Arts Midwest-Public News Service Collaboration On the night of October 4 to 5, ...
Those birds are better indicators of change in a particular habitat because they don’t just dip in and out of it — they depend on it for survival. In the case of grassland birds, including those in ...