$1,086
Raised of $1,000
Scan da Avians
Team Profile
96 total birds seen
Team participating in Great Wisconsin Birdathon 2022
Takes place Apr 15 - Jun 15, 2022
Captained by Barb Barzen
Support our team in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon!
Welcome to the Lower Wisconsin Scan da Avians team page. After two years of birdathoning for an organizational team, we are reuniting as the Scan da Avians. Due to travel schedules, we will head to the field early this time around, birding on April 29, hitting sites within the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway.
Our (mostly) Scandanavian Scan da Avians are Arlyne Johnson, Mike Hedemark, Dan Jergens, Jeb Barzen, and Barb Barzen.
Make us earn your support by pledging an amount per species! We will be lucky to find our goal of 80 species, so a buck-a-bird or half-a-buck-a-bird would be appreciated. To pledge per species, click the donate button, support the captain (Barb), and you will see that option. To donate a set amount, click "support the team".
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!
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!)
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Barb Barzen
Barb Barzen
3 yr. ago
96
birds seen
$5.58
Per bird seen
$535.68
Earned
On Friday, April 29, our five team members covered the 92 mile-long Lower Wisconsin Riverway. Up river, Dan found 180 American White Pelicans, a Cattle Egret (see photo), Sedge Wren, and 54 other birds. Mid-river, Barb found a Virginia Rail, Blue-Headed Vireo, Henslow's Sparrow, and plenty of both shorebirds and lingering waterfowl, and ended the day with three dueling whippoorwills at Cassell Prairie. Jeb found 25 species from his desk, in sight of the river, adding purple finch and vesper sparrow to the list. MIke & Arlyne found five warblers, an Osprey, hermit thrush, and 56 other birds down river, including Wyalusing. Our cold, wet team found 96 species altogether.
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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 $1.2 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, monitoring Kirtland's Warbler nests, 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, 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!