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FEC Songbird Squad

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Team participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2026

Takes place Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2026

Captained by Nickie G

Support the FEC Songbird Squad in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon!

The Forest Exploration Center is part of the Mississippi Flyway, an important stopover area for migratory birds. Over 150 bird species have been spotted in and around the Forest year-round!

By donating to our team, you're supporting the FEC as well as 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!)

Bird Counts and Public Events at the Forest Exploration Center

On May 23, we're hosting a bird walk led by Chuck Hagner, author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to Birds of Wisconsin. Everyone is welcome to this celebration of migratory birds!

More bird counts and events to be announced. Sign up to the Forest Exploration Center newsletter to get notifications.

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Nickie G

1 wk. ago

Welcome Team!

I'm Nickie. You may have met me at a previous event in or around the FEC. I do like buckthorn pulls and tree-plantin' parties. I've also participated in some bird counts previously, but never headed up anything park- related myself. So, let's see how this goes. I'm glad you're here.

Emily G

1 wk. ago

Hi everyone! So excited to start the Forest's first ever Birdathon team. We will be scheduling a couple of bird count events between April and June and announce them here, so stay tuned!

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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!