next new species for the Wisconsin state list?

Keep your "eyes peeled", in flocks of geese this spring, for a Pink-footed Goose. Increasingly found as a vagrant in eastern North America, here are some key points to identifying this species.

 https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/pink-footed-goose

 http://blog.aba.org/2012/11/abarare-pink-footed-geese-maine-pennsylvania-and-newfoundland.html

(Remember to look carefully among white-fronted geese; it is similar).

spring migration maps 2018 (plus)

Take a look at Journey North's set of rapidly-changing maps and sightings for several bird species - plus many other seasonal phenomena, including sap flow, ice out, and monarchs: https://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/

Get ready for the Great Backyard Bird Count!

"Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, the Great Backyard Bird Count was the first online citizen-science project to collect data on wild birds and to display results in near real-time. Now, more than 160,000 people of all ages and walks of life worldwide join the four-day count each February to create an annual snapshot of the distribution and abundance of birds."

This year's event will be February 16-19.

Learn how to get started at http://gbbc.birdcount.org/get-started/


Read the results from last year's count, at http://gbbc.birdcount.org/2017-gbbc-summary/