$1,174
Raised of $1,234
Millennial Falcons
Team Profile
Team participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2025
Takes place Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2025
Captained by Ben Lam
Support our team in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon!
We are the Wayfarers group of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin for young adults. Wayfarers connects young adults to outdoorsy, educational, and adventurous outings in Wisconsin, with the goal of fostering the next generation of conservation stewards.
Join us for our Birdathon outing!
Millennial Falcons Birdathon Outing
When: Sunday, May 18th from 7:30am to 4pm (Join for any or all parts of the day!)
Where: Surrounding Milwaukee, WI
Where are we heading?
7:30am to 11am – Lion’s Den Gorge Nature Preserve (511 High Bluff Dr, Grafton, WI 53024)
11am to 1pm – Lunch – Water Street Brewery (1251 Gateway Dr, Grafton, WI 53024)
1pm to 1:45pm – Drive to Vernon Marsh
2pm to 4pm – Vernon Marsh (S67W26523 Benson Ave, Waukesha, WI 53189 – Google Maps Location is Vernon Wildlife Refuge Additional Parking)
Birds need our help! North America has lost over 3 billion birds since the 1970s, but we can help #BringBirdsBack. By donating to our team, you're supporting the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin's Bird Protection Fund, which funds Wisconsin's highest priority bird conservation projects.
Your support would mean a lot to our team. Birds have made an incredible difference in our lives and we want to protect them. Every dollar counts when it comes to helping our birds, so no donation is too small. Thank you for considering!
Make a donation online by clicking "donate" above, or mail a check to: Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin, ATTN: Great Wisconsin Birdathon, 211 S. Paterson St., Suite 100, Madison, WI 53703 (and include our team's name in the memo line!)
Team Members 5
Hillary Thompson
Lisa Charron
Logan Wille
Zachary Pickett
Ben Lam
Lisa Charron
2 wk. ago
110
bird species seen
$2.80
Per bird species seen
$308
Earned
Thank you everyone who donated to my birdathon team, the Millennial Falcons!
We had a great day on Sunday! Our first stop at Lion's Den Gorge Nature Preserve brought us 70 species! The warblers were really putting on a show. I got good looks at Blackburnian, magnolia, Tennessee, and Nashville warblers for the first time in my life, plus saw lots of yellow, chestnut-sided, and palm warblers.
After lunch, we headed to Vernon Marsh. Some highlights included the common gallinule (seriously, look this one up, it's wild to see it in a marsh in Wisconsin), Wilson's phalarope, and yellow-headed blackbirds.
After we split up from the planned outing, we had a few birders go out on their own to push us to 110 species!
Photo attached is of my new favorite bird, the Blackburnian warbler. Photo credit: Ben Lam.
Ben Lam
3 wk. ago
110
bird species seen
$0.20
Per bird species seen
$22
Earned
Another Millennial Falcons Birdathon in the books!
Huge shoutout to everyone who joined our outing in the Milwaukee area.
Our first stop at Lion's Den Gorge Nature Preserve brought us 70 species! The warblers were kind enough to give us some really good looks. We had 19 species of warblers. After lunch, we headed to Vernon Marsh. Some highlights included the Common Gallinule (the black marsh chicken with the red on its head - thanks for finding it Zach!), Wilson's Phalarope, and of course the beautiful sounds of the Yellow-headed Blackbirds. After we split up from the planned outing, we had a few birders go out on their own to push us over 100 species!
Species:
Our total species count for the day was... 110 species!
You can see the eBird trip report here: https://ebird.org/tripreport/372619
Species seen/heard but didn't make it on a checklist were:
1. Rock Pigeon
2. Spotted Sandpiper
3. Eastern Wood Pewee
4. Blue-winged Warbler
5. Great Egret
6. Philadelphia Vireo
Thank you to everyone who birded, donated, and fundraised!
The Millennial Falcons team is part of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin's Wayfarers group. To learn more: https://www.wisconservation.org/wayfarers/
Donations 27
Your Donation Makes a Difference For Birds
Donations made to the Great Wisconsin Birdathon support the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin’s Bird Protection Fund, which has given out over $1.4 million towards Wisconsin’s highest priority bird conservation projects since its inception in 2009.
Whether it's creating Piping Plover habitat, rearing Whooping Crane chicks, spreading awareness about declining songbirds, supporting community initiatives for bird-friendly neighborhoods, engaging new and underrepresented voices in the birding community, building impactful collaborations to protect Wisconsin's Important Bird Areas, or protecting our neotropical migrants on their long migratory journeys to Central America... the Bird Protection Fund is there to help.
Your donations make this work possible. Thank you for supporting on-the-ground conservation and being there #ForTheBirds!