Name: Chicago Black-crowned Night Heron Panel Discussion
Start: 2025-03-01T13:15:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T14:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.

Saturday March 1, 2025 1:15pm - 2:00pm CST

Rooms 52, 53 - Avian Collective presented by Illinois Audubon Society

Join the Chicago Black-crowned Night Heron research and outreach team for a panel based-discussion about their efforts to conserve the Illinois state endangered Black-crowned Night Heron. Team members will discuss their research process, their achievements and goals to further engage Chicago communities on the subject of avian conservation, as well as their personal career pathways and what a successful night heron project looks like to them. This session will begin with roughly 20 minutes of introductory statements and questions from the panel's moderator Jo Fessett, followed by ample time for audience members to ask questions and get to know the team.

Presenters

Mike Ward

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Illinois Natural History Survey

Henry Adams

Urban Wildlife Institute, Lincoln Park Zoo

Henry (he/they) is a wildlife ecologist, educator, and illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia. They studied wildlife disease ecology under Dr. Sonia Hernandez at the University of Georgia. Henry has researched urbanization's impact on white ibis in South Florida and amphibian pathogens... Read More →

Wildlife, General

Session Session Block D: 1:15 - 2 PM

Wild Things 2025

Mike Ward

Henry Adams

Brad Semel

Sarah Slayton

Amy Lardner

Jo Fessett

Michael Avara

Attendees (118)

Attendees (118)

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