“There are places you walk where you see sky touching the earth, and you can imagine this as the gateway to the Grand Prairie,” site steward Pat Hayes said of Orland Grassland.
“There are places you walk where you see sky touching the earth, and you can imagine this as the gateway to the Grand Prairie,” site steward Pat Hayes said of Orland Grassland.
Hotshot birders call them megas, as in mega-rarity -- the once-in-a-lifetime events that send dedicated watchers racing for their binoculars. What are your chances, say, of spotting a painted redstart in Illinois? Almost zero.
Though adult sandhill cranes have been regularly summering at Midewin since 2015, according to retired ornithologist Jim Herkert, this was the first confirmation of breeding there.
AMBOY - The Illinois Audubon Society has purchased an 80-acre addition to the 352-acre Amboy Marsh Nature Preserve in Lee County. The addition contains highly