Bird Migration Monitoring in Chicagoland

Last fall, the Windy City Bird Lab put an acoustic bird migration monitor on the roof of our warehouse to find out what birds were migrating. It is part of the Chicago Bird Migration Monitoring Network, a collaborative effort to track the movements of migratory birds through Chicagoland using acoustics, thermal imagery, radar, and other technologies.

J'orge Garcia, Director of the Windy City Bird Lab, will talk about the birds that migrate through Chicagoland and these new ways to monitor their passage. Their growing network of Nocturnal Flight Call (NFC) recorders, launched in 2023 with foundational support from Cornell and Openlands, now spans 35 stations in collaboration with the University of Illinois, tracking migratory bird movement in across the Chicagoland region including the roof of the Willis “Sears” Tower, the Adler Planetarium, Northwestern University and the CCRx Warehouse at the Envision Unlimited Frick Center!

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