October 2024 Newsletter

October Highlights:

• Field Notes: Bird Walk Highlights

• Bird of the Month: Pied-billed Grebe

• Birdability Resources

• Sunday Morning Bird Walks are happening now through October

• Central Illinois Bat Festival, September 28

• Volunteer Seed Collection Event, October 1

• Apply for Mini-Grants by October 18

• Birdability Week, October 21–27

• UIUC Owl Nights, October 29 and November 12

• Owls of Illinois, November 9

• The Magic Stump Film Screening, November 12

• Robert Ridgway: When Amateur Bird Watching Became a Rigorous Science, November 12

• And more!