Field Trips

12/14/2025 Saylorville Christmas Bird Count The Saylorville Christmas Bird Count covers Saylorvilled Reservoir, Big Creek State Park and the towns of Madrid and Slater. You can add to a century of community science by signing up to help with this count. Contact Stephen Dinsmore for more information: https://iowabirds.org/Connections/CBCMsg.aspx?id=109
1/3/2026 Boone County Christmas Bird Count Everyone is welcome to participate. The count circle includes Boone, Ogden, Fraser and Luther, plus Ledges State Park, the Iowa Arboretum and a lot of great habitat along the Des Moines River. This will be the 40th Boone County CBC. For more information or to join the count, contact Karl Jungbluth or use the Send Us A Message form at the bottom of this page.
6/18/2026 Big Bluestem Audubon Society Picnic and birdwatching event Big Bluestem Audubon Society Picnic and birdwatching event. Location TBA

12/14/2025
Saylorville Christmas Bird Count

The Saylorville Christmas Bird Count covers Saylorvilled Reservoir, Big Creek State Park and the towns of Madrid and Slater. You can add to a century of community science by signing up to help with this count.

Contact Stephen Dinsmore for more information: https://iowabirds.org/Connections/CBCMsg.aspx?id=109

1/3/2026
Boone County Christmas Bird Count

Everyone is welcome to participate. The count circle includes Boone, Ogden, Fraser and Luther, plus Ledges State Park, the Iowa Arboretum and a lot of great habitat along the Des Moines River. This will be the 40th Boone County CBC. For more information or to join the count, contact Karl Jungbluth or use the Send Us A Message form at the bottom of this page.

6/18/2026
Big Bluestem Audubon Society Picnic and birdwatching event
Big Bluestem Audubon Society
Picnic and birdwatching event. Location TBA

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General Resources

Iowa Audubon statewide coalition of Audubon Chapters and other local birding groups in Iowa
Iowa Ornithologists' Union statewide organization for all people interested in Iowa's birds
eBird a handy tool for tracking your bird sightings and contributing to a global picture
All About Birds ID help and other interesting information from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

Iowa Audubon
statewide coalition of Audubon Chapters and other local birding groups in Iowa

Iowa Ornithologists' Union
statewide organization for all people interested in Iowa's birds

eBird
a handy tool for tracking your bird sightings and contributing to a global picture

All About Birds
ID help and other interesting information from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology

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General Resources