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Chicago BCNH Project

Advocating for Illinois-endangered Black-Crowned Night-Heron conservation.

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Chicago Black-crowned Night Heron Project

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The Windy City Rookery: Movement and Activity Patterns of Black-Crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) in a Human-Dominated Landscape

Conservation Collaborators

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Black-crowned Night-heron Urban Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation – Ward Laboratory
Lincoln Park Zoo: Welcome Back, Black-crowned Night Herons!
Illinois Audubon Society: BCNH Project -

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Anyone: Report Banded Black-crowned Night Heron Sightings

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Press

Chicago Tribune: "In unlikely relationship, endangered herons seek out Lincoln Park Zoo’s red wolves for protection"
Illinois Audubon Society: "Conservation project tracks behavior, migration of Chicago’s endangered heron"
Outdoor Illinois Journal: "Chicago’s Urban Heron Story: A Natural Marvel in the Heart of the City; A Hope for the Future?"
"Outdoor Illinois Journal": "Tracking the Endangered Black-crowned Night-heron"
WGN TV: "Hundreds of black crowned night herons nesting right about Lincoln Park Zoo"
WTTW: "Lincoln Park Zoo’s Wildest Residents Are a Colony of Free-Range Night Herons Who Like Having Wolves for Bodyguards"
WTTW: "Endangered Black-Crowned Night Herons Are Thriving in Chicago. Researchers Want to Know Why"
Chicago Tribune: "The case of the black-crowned night herons: Abandoned nests reveal gaps in the state’s ability to protect endangered species"
National Geographic: "A Chicago museum disrupted an endangered bird's habitat"
WBEZ: "Endangered herons make themselves at home in Lincoln Park"
DNA Info Chicago: "Rare Black-Crowned Night Herons Thrive at Zoo"
IDNR: "Night Herons of Chicago: One of the country’s most heavily industrialized regions hosts an urban waterbird colony"
Chicago Reader: "Field & Street"