Building on the strong foundation set by our first two years, the 2024 season saw significant growth in both participation and data collection, helping us better understand and conserve Chicago’s nighthawk population.
In his latest installment of Birding Through the Year, David Hoyt shares a personal, cultural, and scientific journey of coming to know the mysterious nightjar.
With the 2023 nighthawk monitoring season behind us, we are excited to now share some of the key results from the efforts of our amazing volunteers. Spoiler alert, they did in fact find nighthawks!
With the 2022 pilot nighthawk monitoring season behind us, we are excited to now share some of the key results from the efforts of our amazing volunteers. Spoiler alert, they did in fact find nighthawks!
This summer, Chicago Ornithological Society launched a new volunteer monitoring program to track, study, and conserve the Common Nighthawk. In a few short weeks, the COS team created a unique new monitoring protocol and cobbled together a crack team of about a dozen volunteers to pilot this new program.
