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Schlitz Audubon Screech Owls
Team Profile
Team participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2024
Takes place Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2024
Captained by Carrie Becker
Support our team in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon!
Join the Schlitz Audubon Screech Owls to help us log as many species as we can at the Center through June 15. Bird and log species on your own, join us for our group outing on Wednesday, May 22, or do it all!
Screech Owls Group Event
When: 6:30 a.m. – noon on Wednesday, May 22
Where: Meet at the Center in the Tower Lot
What: Join one of our guided groups to help us meet our goal of finding 100 species during the Birdathon! Bird for a few hours, or feel free to stay with the group through mid-day. Snacks will be provided, but bring binoculars, comfortable footwear, and layered clothing.
You can also support this stellar team – or your favorite member – with a per species pledge or one-time donation through June 15! Half of your donation will stay with Schlitz Audubon Nature Center to support ornithological education programming and citizen science efforts. The other half will go to the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin's Bird Protection Fund, which funds Wisconsin's highest priority bird conservation projects.
Pictured here: Tucker, Gimli, and Baron von Screech, the team’s unofficial mascots, current and former members of Schlitz Audubon’s animal ambassador program.
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!)
Team Members 9
Carrie Becker
Tracy Bernhardt
Amanda Ohly
Donna Miller
Katie Fisher
Carrie Becker
1 yr. ago
87
bird species seen
$3
Per bird species seen
$261
Earned
While I didn't make it to the 100 mark during this time frame, I'm really excited to have gotten to 87! My fave sightings were definitely of the pileated woodpecker, mourning warbler, and yellow-bellied flycatcher. Can't wait for fall migration!
Tracy Bernhardt
1 yr. ago
46
bird species seen
$3.19
Per bird species seen
$146.74
Earned
During our May 22 group outing:
Mallard
Wild Turkey
Mourning Dove
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Jay
American Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
House Wren
European Starling
Gray Catbird
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
American Goldfinch
Field Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Blackburnian Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Northern Cardinal
Belted Kingfisher
Hairy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Least Flycatcher
House Finch
Mourning Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Canada Warbler
Kyle Arpke
1 yr. ago
57
bird species seen
$0.88
Per bird species seen
$50.16
Earned
This morning's Birdathon hike at Schlitz went super well! Myself and two others were assigned the Lake Michigan Terrace walk and we had an amazing time catching all sorts of birds through our viewfinders! We found 57 species overall, including 13 warblers and a female Pileated Woodpecker! A really wonderful morning with wonderful people (and wonderful birds)!
Donations 12
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!