Ben Lam

Fundraiser Profile

110/100 bird species seen

Participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2025

Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2025

Team Captain of Millennial Falcons

Support my team in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon!

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!)

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/

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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!