Friday Feathered Feature

Lincoln's Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

It’s a crisp October morning, and I’m out birding in the prairie . . . I spot a solitary Song Sparrow and a few White-crowned Sparrows, both juveniles and adults, but now I see the sparrow that I am most eager to find—a Lincoln’s Sparrow!

Photo by Gary Shackelford

A new way of tracking monarch migrations

A new way of tracking monarch migrations

This fall, Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance fitted 30 migrating monarch butterflies with BlūMorpho solar transmitters at Goose Pond Sanctuary, to help researchers track their routes to wintering grounds in Mexico.

Photo by Mike Budd/USFWS

 
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