Overview:

Tara Beveroth will present “The History of 50 Years of Illinois Spring Bird Count Data” at the Urbana Free Library. Tara Beveroth is an avian ecologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey. Her work involves collaborating with a group of dynamic researchers to look at the effects of landscape changes and farming practices on bird, plant, and insect communities in forests, grasslands, and wetlands in Illinois. She also coordinates or co-coordinates multiple citizen science programs, including the Illinois Spring Bird Count, Monitoring of Owls and Nightjars Program, project MOON, and more recently the Illinois Breeding Bird Survey. In 2019, she also started a local migratory bird banding station that she operates with the assistance of fellow University of Illinois staff, graduate students, and sometimes undergraduate students.