Illinois Natural History Survey monitoring fall migration, banding birds at Phillips Tract
Published: , in Outdoor News
As millions of birds migrate southward across the U.S. this fall, Tara Beveroth operates an important bird banding station in central Illinois.
Each week, a volunteer group of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students and researchers assist Beveroth, an avian ecologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey, in the capture and banding of migratory birds. Before sunrise, Beveroth meets the volunteer group at Phillips Tract, a 130-acre research site northeast of Urbana.
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