|
Keep watching, as events will be added throughout the year
|
April 2025 |
|
|
Wed., Apr. 9 7:00 p.m. Live at
Forest Park and streamed via Zoom
|
Paul Resnick: A Little Patch of Prairie: Opening our Lawns to
Native Plants Join us at Forest Park Nature Center as Master Naturalist Paul Resnick presents a program, along with recommendations, guidance and instruction, on how to open up our lawns to native prairie plants. And, learn about all the benefits. |
May 2025 |
|
| Wed., May 14 7:00 p.m. Streamed via Zoom
|
Mary Hennen: Peregrine Falcons - Their History and Their Comeback
Join us on Zoom as Mary Hennen, Assistant Birds Collection Manager at the Chicago Field Museum, will enlighten us about peregrine falcons in Illinois and beyond. According to Mary, "...as recently as 1960's, Peregrines had been extirpated east of the Rockies... With the recovery of the species, the Chicago Peregrine Program now directs it's focus towards monitoring Peregrines in Illinois." |
|
September 2025 |
|
|
Wed., Sept. 10 7:00 p.m.
Streamed via Zoom
|
Kirsten Hill: Bird Friendly Coffee and Sustainable
Conservation Kirsten Hill, Program Manager from the Smithsonian Institution, will enlighten us the on benefits of their Bird Friendly Coffee Program. And, how drinking coffee that is certified by the Smithsonian Institution as Bird Friendly has major benefits to conservation and migrating birds as well as tasting great! |
|
December 2025 |
|
|
Wed., Dec. 10, 7:00 p.m. Live at
Forest Park and streamed via Zoom
|
A Big Year: Tarik Shahzad and Government Affairs: Ashley
Maybanks
Join us, as Tarik Shazad tells us all about his big year of birding in Cook County and as Ashley Maybanks updates us about the inner workings environmental advocacy. In 2024, Tarik embarked on a Cook County Birding 'Big Year,' breaking the record with 294 species. |