Stephanie Beilke

Fundraiser Profile

12/50 bird species seen

Participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2025

Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2025

Team Captain of Female Bird Day

Support my team in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon!

Female birds are historically understudied and misunderstood. In 2019, a group called the Galbatrosses started the Female Bird Project, which aims to bring more attention to female birds. As one of the founding members of the Galbatrosses, my goal is to host a bird walk on Female Bird Day where we go out and look for female birds and share the Galbatross message!

Birds need our help! North America has lost over 3 billion birds since the 1970s, but we can help #BringBirdsBack. By donating to my page, 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 me. Birds have made an incredible difference in my life and I 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!)

Stephanie Beilke

6 mo. ago

bird species seen

$16.67

Per bird species seen

$200.04

Earned

On May 24, we had a beautiful morning celebrating Female Bird Day at Washington Park in Milwaukee! Our group found 12 species we were able to identify as female including several warbler species such as Yellow Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler and Wilson's Warbler! For our full list, we found 49 species including a Broad-winged Hawk that was migrating north! Thank you all so much for donating to support our team and hope you all had a wonderful Female Bird Day weekend!

Stephanie Beilke

7 mo. ago

I'm excited to share I'll be supporting the Wisconsin Birdathon this year by hosting a bird walk in Milwaukee coinciding with Female Bird Day!

We welcome participants to join us at Washington Park on 5/24! Here's more information about our bird walk:

Female Bird Day
Saturday, May 24, 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Urban Ecology Center, Washington Park

Meet at the front entrance of the Urban Ecology Center (parking is off of 40th St just south of Lisbon Ave).
Join Stephanie Beilke, a Milwaukee birder and conservationist, and Amanda Tokuyama, GIS & Field Data Manager with the Urban Ecology Center, for Female Bird Day at Washington Park! For this bird walk, we will tour the urban natural area at Washington Park and look for all birds we can find including many migrating and breeding birds. In honor of Female Bird Day, we will be paying close attention to female birds and reviewing how to identify female birds from their male counterparts by looking at plumage and behavior.
This event is free and open to all participants with any level of birding experience. Binoculars and field guides will be available to borrow. No registration needed.

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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!