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Researchers can use bird banding to find out how long birds are living, where they’re going and how they’re responding to climate change.

The radio antenna, positioned at Big Marsh Park on the Southeast Side, helps fill a Chicago-sized gap in a growing network of receivers that's tracking the movement of migratory birds and other animals.   

2021 Best of Year Award Winner for Environmental Impact. Valerio Dewalt Train overhauled marshes in Chicago to create Big Marsh, a new bike park that covers almost 300 acres with walking and cycling trails plus a 9,300-square-foot environmental education center that tells the history of the site.

Chicago is now home to a receiver on the Motus wildlife tracking system, a global network that helps scientists make sense of migration. The technology is capable of picking up the movement of creatures as small as butterflies.

But Chicago is now home to a receiver on the Motus wildlife tracking system, a global network that helps scientists make sense of migration. The technology is capable of picking