#613 In-person and Online: Wings Over the Windy City and the Chicago Bird Migration Monitoring Network

“Wings Over the Windy City” is a research initiative focused on the unique challenges and opportunities migratory birds face within Chicago’s urban landscape. This three-year project at the Van Doren Lab of Migration Biology at UIUC will explore how migratory birds use high-altitude city airspace, assess the value of urban green spaces, and identify key factors driving fatal bird-building collisions.

The Chicago Bird Migration Monitoring Network is a collaborative effort in partnership with The #citybirds Project and the Lipshutz Lab at Duke University to track migratory birds across Chicagoland using technologies like acoustics, thermal imagery, and radar. By advancing the scientific understanding of nocturnal migration and making data publicly available on chicagobirdmigration.net, the project invites communities and new audiences to discover and appreciate the migratory birds traveling over the city each season.

Following the presentation, attendees are encouraged to join the #citybirds breakout group to collaborate on building tools and resources to make birds more accessible to all Chicagoans and explore the eBird API and other datasets.

This event will be in person, but you can also tune in via livestream. Doors open at 6pm. The livestream and announcements will start around 6:30pm CDT.

In-person: TeamWorking, 20 N Upper Wacker Drive, 12th Floor, Chicago IL. Enter the Civic Opera Building using the entrance in the middle of the block between Washington and Madison streets. Take the elevators to the 12th floor.

For more information on our in-person events, please see our COVID Policy.

RSVP In-person attendees should RSVP beforehand. As occupancy limits permit, walk-ins will be allowed to enter.

There will be food! We will be serving Costa Rican empanadas, chicken casado and rice from Irazu!