We were seeking a rare bird in a northern Illinois savanna, an immature little blue heron. The bird is blue as an adult, but when it’s immature, it’s solid white, just as white as a great ...

Irons Oaks Environmental Learning Center hosted a "Birds of Prey" event on July 16, featuring live raptors, including owls ...

Other migrating birds spend some or all of the winter in Illinois, including short-eared owls and northern harriers. Both are listed as state-endangered because few nest in the state anymore.

A survey of Illinois birds was conducted in 1906 and again in 1956. When the 100-year anniversary of that first survey was approaching, ornithologists Mike Ward, Jeff Walk, Steve Bailey, and Jeff ...

Bob Dolgan made six trips to Coles County to capture the magic, but a trail cam installed by Funk proved more efficient. Besides the prairie falcons, a partial list of birds caught on camera ...

More than four million birds crossed Illinois Saturday night into Sunday morning and more are expected in the coming days as an annual spring migration of birds over the United States continues ...

During the spring migration, an estimated 313 million birds have crossed over Illinois as they journey north to Wisconsin and into Canada, Birdcast said.

Thousands of birds are expected to migrate over the Chicago area overnight, triggering a “Migration Alert” to help protect the flying travelers. According to BirdCast, a service powered by a ...

Millions of birds are migrating south for the winter, with more than 50 million crossing the state overnight and tens of millions more expected to do so into Tuesday morning.