Wetland Woods, as the name suggests, consists of diverse habitats including woods of mature maples and oaks, prairies, streams, and wetlands. We will be sure to see early migrants and resident birds throughout. The boardwalks give us access to the wetlands, and easy trails will lead us through the woods and prairies.

We are excited to host our third annual Woodcock watch in Madison! Join us as we search for these cool little birds as they "peent" and do their quirky and elaborate courtship fights that are called "sky dances.”

Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski.

Join us for a hike at the Wehr Nature Center, an inland birding hotspot! The Wehr Nature Center is a 220 acre nature preserve and is part of Whitnall Park. The trails go through woodlands, prairies, around Mallard Lake, and near creeks.

Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski.

Join us for a walk through Seminary Woods in St Francis, just south of Milwaukee! Seminary Woods is a beautiful woodland that often attracts winter finches, many species of woodpeckers, and owls.

Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski.

Join us for a walk through the UW-Madison Arboretum. We will be looking for "the usual suspects", our hardy overwintering friends. The arboretum can be a great place for raptors and does provide some surprises, so it will be a great adventure.

Photo by Arun Christopher Manoharan.

Event Cancellation Notice: Safety First
Due to safety concerns and hazardous road conditions, we regret to inform you that the upcoming event at Paradise Valley is cancelled.

Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski.

Hoping to turn a loved one into a full-fledged bird nerd? Looking to sharpen your bird identification skills? Just need a bird-related excuse to visit the Milwaukee County Zoo? Join us!

Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski.

The Milwaukee Christmas Bird Count is the BIPOC Birding Club’s event for the month of December! Each year, birders around the country participate in Christmas Bird Counts (CBC).

Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski.

The Madison-area Christmas Bird Count is the BIPOC Birding Club’s event for the month of December! We are leading the birding effort in the northeastern part of Madison, near the airport and the Madison College Truax campus.

Photo by Dexter Patterson

Turville is a gem in the heart of the concrete jungle of Madison. With restored prairies and woodlands stretching along glacial Lake Monona, it offers great views and lots of great birding habitat.

Veterans Park is a great place to check out during the fall months. There is bound to be something of note in the lagoon, Marina, and/or Lake Michigan. November is often the time to find snowy owls, interesting ducks and geese, late migrants, exciting gull species and more!

Join the BIPOC Birding Club for a trip to the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, where we will learn about their important mission and see their work in action.

EVENT CANCELLED - We regret to inform you that the World Migratory Bird Day event scheduled for tomorrow (Saturday), October 14th, 2023, at Jackson Park in Milwaukee, has been canceled due to inclement weather.

LOCATION CHANGE: Bring your friends and family and join us at Lake Farm County Park!

Swift Night Out Social returns this September, and we are collaborating with fellow bird-loving organizations to make this even bigger and better! The BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin, the Feminist Bird Club - Madison Chapter, Madison Audubon and the Wisconsin Chimney Swift Working Group are collaborating to host a community gathering that showcases the amazing phenomenon of hundreds of Chimney Swifts coming into roost for the night.

What is a Big Sit you might ask? A Big Sit is like a tailgate for birding. It’s traditionally a 24-hour event, but we’re going to do a mini 2-hour event instead. We will keep a tally of all bird species we see from a 17-foot diameter circle. We are going to set up near a prairie area of the cemetery where the birding is often quite good!

Photo courtesy of Rita Flores Wiskowski

August is a great time to check the beaches along Lake Michigan. Shorebirds, gulls, and terns are beginning their fall migration. Songbirds are still abundant. Who knows what else we might see!

Photo by Rita Flores Wiskowski

Join us on August 12 at 9:00 AM as we bird at Cherokee Marsh Conservation Park - South Unit. This was previously scheduled to be held at Lewis Nine Springs eWay but changed due to site conditions and slower birding there.

Photo by Jeff Galligan

Join the BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin and Madison Audubon for a slow paddle exploring beautiful and interesting habitats and birds of Cherokee Marsh. Get a great experience looking for spring birds, insects, and aquatic plants by boat; we expect to see species like Green Heron, Kingfishers, swallows, and more. Then after the paddle, join us for hanging out and socializing across the road at Murphy’s Bar and Restaurant.

Photo by Jeff Galligan

Pack up a folding chair and bins and join us early on July 29, 2023 at UW-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve for a pre-dawn bat swarm watch and a morning birding walk!

Photo by Heather Kaarakka

Join the BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin and Groundswell Conservancy for a morning of birding at Patrick Marsh on Saturday July 8 from 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. Get outside and experience the joy of birding with the whole family. We’ll learn some birding basics and then enjoy an easy, one-mile walk along the hiking trails.

Photo by Jeff Galligan

The Cedarburg Bog, a designated Important Bird Area (IBA), is an irregularly shaped sprawling mosaic of cedar swamp, hardwood swamp, conifer bog, southern hardwood forest, pine plantation, sedge meadow, native grassland, willow/alder/dogwood swamp, and six relict lakes surrounded by emergent vegetation.

Photo courtesy of Cedarburg Bog

Join the BIPOC Birding Club of Wisconsin and Madison Audubon for a slow paddle exploring the incredible diversity of Cherokee Marsh. Get a great experience looking for birds, insects, and aquatic plants by boat; we expect to see species like Green Heron, Kingfishers, swallows, Sora, and more!

Lake Park, with its multiple ravines, including one with a waterfall, provides wonderful habitat for migrating songbirds including many warblers, flycatchers, and sparrows. It has hosted rare warblers such as Worm eating, Black-throated Gray, Connecticut, and many others. Walking paths go through the ravines with foot bridges over the running water. Additional paths above the ravines give great views of the tree canopy to see what might be flitting about there.

Photo by Jeff Galligan

Warnimont Park in Cudahy (southern Milwaukee County) is close to 250 acres and covers a variety of habitats that attract migrating birds including prairie, deciduous woods, ravines and more. Its east border is Lake Michigan. The bird species count is 234 including a number of rarities that show up every spring and have included Western Kingbirds, Northern Mockingbirds, Blue Grosbeaks, Prairie Warblers and many more.

Photo by Arun Christopher Manoharan

Photo courtesy Wehr Nature Center

If you love all things nature and want to get to know the birds you'll find in and around Madison, this class is for you. This is a four-part class taught by Jeff Galligan and Chuck Henrikson, done in partnership with Madison Audubon.

Class dates: April 15, 22, and 29, and May 6 from 8:00-10:00am CST.

Photo by Kelly Colgan Azar

Join us for a spring walk along the shores of Lake Waubesa as we bird Lake Farm Park and then the inland boardwalk that connects the Capital City Trail with McDaniel Park in the Village of McFarland.

Photo by Joshua Mayer