$2,930
Raised of $2,500
Yes We Pelican! (Feminist Bird Club)
Team Profile
Team participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2025
Takes place Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2025
Captained by Caitlyn Schuchhardt
FBC-Madison is out to Save Our Songbirds!
Team Yes We Pelican! is back for our fifth year of the Birdathon! We represent the Feminist Bird Club-Madison Chapter. Can we spot a lot of birds, raise funds for bird conservation, and build an inclusive birding community all at the same time? Yes We Pelican!
New this year, we're partnering with SOS Save Our Songbirds, a Wisconsin-based initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the dire situation of Wisconsin's songbirds and spurring action at home. SOS Save Our Songbirds empowers people to make small changes that have a big impact, helping provide birds with the habitat they need year-round and reducing window threats.
By donating to our team, you're supporting both the Bird Protection Fund which funds Wisconsin's highest priority bird conservation projects across the state AND and SOS Save Our Songbirds and the incredible impact they have on birds in our own backyards. It's a win-win!
Every dollar counts when it comes to helping the birds we love so much. No donation is too small. Thank you for your support!
🐦 Wanna bird with us? We'll be hosting birding outings around Madison all day long on Sunday, May 11th. Grab a friend, grab your mom (it'll be Mother's Day after all!) and come enjoy peak spring migration with us. Register here!
🦉 Wanna fundraise? The first 10 participants that join our team and raise over $100 in donations will get a free FBC embroidered patch featuring the Northern Saw-Whet Owl!
Team Members 9
Megan Heneke
Caitlyn Schuchhardt
Shaina Stewart
Ryan Michalesko
Rhonda Kruse
Caitlyn Schuchhardt
4 mo. ago
130
bird species seen
$3.15
Per bird species seen
$409.50
Earned
That's a wrap! I'm reporting in for team Yes We Pelican! as we completed our fifth annual Birdathon on Sunday, May 11th. Our Feminist Bird Club chapter held five group birding across town, with over 50+ people participating throughout the day! We also had some dedicated members birding further afield to help contribute to the count. Collectively, our chapter saw 130 species on our Birdathon day! 🔥
Birding highlights included getting excellent looks at both Black-throated Blue Warbler and Blackburnian Warbler, seeing a Cooper's Hawk on a nest (appropriate for Mother's Day!), and ending the day with a Barred Owl.
We also surpassed our fundraising goal and raised over $2,500! 🎉 50% of our funds will be supporting SOS Save Our Songbirds, an incredible group empowering individuals to make small but impactful changes that help birds, the rest will go to the Bird Protection Fund.
Thank you so much to everyone who birded with us or left a donation to cheer us on! We appreciate your support - it's all #ForTheBirds!
Curious what we saw? 👀 Check out our eBird Trip Report: https://ebird.org/tripreport/366083
Donations 36
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!