$3,625
Raised of $2,000
Chirp Chasers
Team Profile
434 total birds seen
Team participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2023
Takes place Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2023
Captained by Alison Sazama
Support our team in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon!
After a long winter, who among us hasn't smiled at the cheery warble of the Robin and delighted in the arrival of the Baltimore Oriole in all its colorful splendor? Birds bring us so much joy with their amazing diversity in song and color. But their habitat is disappearing rapidly and that's why the Chippewa County Land Conservancy has participated in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon for the past several years. Our team, the Chirp Chaser’s will set out once again to spot as many birds as possible and work to raise funds to protect them.
The Chirp Chaser’s team has challenged itself to raise $2000 this year and hopes to view at least 115 bird species. We will be birdwatching the week of May 14 through May 20.
Your support will benefit the Wisconsin Natural Resources Foundation AND the Chippewa County Land Conservancy. Half of the proceeds will go to the NRF's Bird Protection Fund and half will go the the Chippewa County Land Conservancy as it works to protect valuable habitat for our native birds.
What would our lives be without birds and the beauty they bring? Please consider a donation. Your support would mean so much to us! It’s easy and no amount is too small! Even $10 will help us achieve our goal. You can make a contribution 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!)
Team Members 5
Jeff Brown
Alison Sazama
Liam Kraft
Katherine Mehls
Kristi Lund
Alison Sazama
11 mo. ago
Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2023 – Chirp Chaser’s bird list!
Here is our final list for the year!
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Mute Swan
Wood Duck
Blue Winged Teal
Green Winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Mallard
Redhead
Ring Necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Gadwall
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Ring Neck Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Ruffed Grouse
Pied Billed Grebe
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Yellow Billed Cuckoo
Eastern Whip-poor-will
Ruby Throated Hummingbird
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
American Woodcock
Least Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Stilt Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Herring Gull
Ring-Billed Gull
Common Loon
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red Tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Northern Harrier
Bald Eagle
Sharp Shinned Hawk
Broad Winged Hawk
Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Pileated Woodpecker
Red -Bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Red- Headed Woodpecker
Merlin
American Kestrel
Eastern Phoebe
Alder Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Wood Peewee
Eastern Kingbird
Solitary Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Red Eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
N. Rough Winged Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Black Capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White Breasted Nuthatch
Red Breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Winter Wren
House Wren
Sedge Wren
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby Crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
Veery
Swainsons Thrush
Eastern Bluebird
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
House Sparrow
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Purple Finch
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Clay colored Sparrow
Common Grackle
Red Winged Blackbird
Brewers Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bobolink
Eastern Meadowlark
Orchard Oriole
Baltimore Oriole
American Redstart
Black and White Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Blue-winged Warbler
Canada Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Golden-winged Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Kristi Lund
11 mo. ago
3
birds seen
$3.08
Per bird seen
$9.24
Earned
While biking this week solo deep in the Chippewa River basin, a silent barred owl peered at eye level, a large bird above. Merlin simultaneously recorded a Red-shouldered Hawk! New to the list while birding Door County is the Philadelphia Vireo, a secretive bird of brushy, dense vegetation and the blue gray gnatcatcher. Close to home in a protected wetland was the Willow Flycatcher, noted for its distinctive call, "Phitzbew!".
Thank you for your generous support to protect birds!
Alison Sazama
11 mo. ago
51
birds seen
$6.12
Per bird seen
$312.12
Earned
Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2023 – Chirp Chaser’s recap
The 2023 Birdathon is nearing completion and the Chirp Chasers have had a stellar year thanks to all of our contributors. We can’t thank you enough! We raised $3,725.00 and once again emphasize the importance of your contributions to our organization and the birds.
A special shout out to our team members, Liam Kraft, Kathy Mehls, Jeff Brown and Kristi Lund. We tallied an incredible 142 species which is our all- time best.
Summer like temperatures came fast after a long cool April. Interestingly, several highlights came from backyards. A Solitary Vireo, which is rare in the Chippewa Valley and an unexpected and exciting observation from a team members’ bedroom window at midnight – the repeated call of the Eastern Whip-poor-will. The beautiful image below of the Northern Shoveler came in the early morning hours at sunrise and several members of the team spotted a pair of Northern Waterthrushes, plain little brown birds often difficult to observe.
The team was delighted to have Liam Kraft join the birding adventure. A fifth grader, Liam’s enthusiasm is contagious and it’s wonderful to see young people getting involved. Liam captured on film a shot of White Pelicans on the island at Lake Wissota as they stopped over. Liam admitted it was hard to pick a favorite sighting but decided on that of a Worm-eating Warbler and wild Mute Swans.
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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 $1.3 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 Connecticut Warblers, 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!