Reckless Wrens - Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance

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 and the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance. The team members were out starting in the late afternoon of May 16 and wrapped up May 17, counting all the bird species that we could find on SoWBA sanctuary properties and bird hotspots in Columbia and Dane Counties. The weather was cold and windy but we had remarkable success -- 157 species! (list is below the shameless plug for donations)

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! Half of your donation goes to the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance. We'll be using this year's donations to help Purple Martins, including the purchase of a gourd rack (Martin houses).

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!)

Reckless Wrens 2025

Canada Goose

Trumpeter Swan

Wood Duck

Gadwall

Eurasian Wigeon*

American Wigeon

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal

Northern Pintail

Redhead

Ring-necked Duck

Hooded Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Ring-necked Pheasant

Wild Turkey

Common Loon

Pied-billed Grebe

Double-crested Cormorant

American White Pelican

American Bittern

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Green Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Northern Harrier

Red-shouldered Hawk  (THR)

Red-tailed Hawk

American Kestrel

Virginia Rail

Sora

Common Gallinule

American Coot

Sandhill Crane

Black-bellied Plover

Semipalmated Plover

Killdeer

Spotted Sandpiper

Solitary Sandpiper

Marbled Godwit

Ruddy Turnstone

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Dunlin

Short-billed Dowitcher

Wilson's Snipe

American Woodcock

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Black Tern

Forster's Tern

Rock Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Great Horned Owl

Barred Owl

Common Nighthawk

Chimney Swift

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Pileated Woodpecker

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Alder Flycatcher

Willow Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Eastern Phoebe

Great Crested Flycatcher

Eastern Kingbird

Yellow-throated Vireo

Blue-headed Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Blue Jay

American Crow

Common Raven

Horned Lark

Purple Martin

Tree Swallow

No. Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Black-capped Chickadee

Tufted Titmouse

White-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Carolina Wren

House Wren

Sedge Wren

Marsh Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Eastern Bluebird

Veery

Wood Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Brown Thrasher

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

Blue-winged Warbler

Tennessee Warbler

Orange-crowned Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Black-throated Green Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Bay-breasted Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Black-and-white warbler

American Redstart

Prothonotary Warbler

Ovenbird

Northern Waterthrush

Mourning Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Wilson's Warbler

Canada Warbler

Eastern Towhee

Chipping Sparrow

Clay-colored Sparrow

Field Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

Henslow's Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Summer Tanager

Scarlet Tanager

Northern Cardinal

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Indigo Bunting

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird

Eastern Meadowlark

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Orchard Oriole

Baltimore Oriole

House Finch

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow