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Warner Park Nature/Bird Walk

Madison’s North Side offers human diversity and an unexpected biodiversity. Trish O’Kane has found over 91 species of birds in Warner Park. She has shared morning coffee with a bald eagle, an ovenbird, a sora, and spent several cocktail hours watching two great horned owls court.

The biodiversity in just one dead tree - favorite bird perches - can be stunning. One morning on a marsh island tree, a young red-tailed hawk, two hummingbirds, several small yellow warblers, goldfinches, an eastern kingbird and blackbirds, all sat on different branches like ornaments in a Christmas tree.

Many Warner birds are long-distance migrators and are heading to winter homes in Latin America. Our pewee family may fly as far as Peru. Some of our hummingbirds may cross the Gulf of Mexico in one 18-hour night. They all face an increasingly dangerous journey because of cell towers, skyscrapers, pesticides, harsh weather, predators and disappearing habitat. Half may not make it back. But those that do will probably return to Warner Park.

O’Kane is a Ph.D. student in environment and resources at the Gaylord Nelson Institute of UW-Madison. She researches birds that migrate between Madison and Central America.

This is the fourth in a series of walks by Wild Warner Park— Celebrating nature in Madison’s largest urban park.

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Warner Park Community Recreation Center
1625 Northport Dr.

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