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Peg Keiner

@pegkeiner.bsky.social

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Educator, Citizen Scientist, National Geographic Explorer investigating heritage and biodiversity

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 18h

UPDATE—- time moved to 11:30-1:30pm so the presenter can finish monitoring!

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 22h

🚨Join us at on Saturday for one last Bird Collision Monitor Training for fall migration season. As the temperatures drop, we’re seeing millions of birds migrate through Chicago, and they need your help! 💛

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely! I’m only one person on a large team. Collisions happen all through the day, too.

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 2d

BIG morning for birds! I had 18 dead and 7 live including this Golden-crowned Kinglet. BirdCast is predicting another Hugh migration again tonight. Please keep calling the CBCM hotline if you see a dead or stunned bird: 773-988-1867

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 2d

BirdCast @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social is predicting a busy migration night for the Midwest! 429 MILLION birds 🐦

☎️ Call Chicago Bird Collision Monitors if you find a dead or injured bird: 773 988 1867

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 5d

This Sora was most like on its migration south to Central and South America. They migrate to Chicago in summer to breed, and we need protect wetlands to aid in their survival. As always, keep calling CBCM if you find a dead or injured bird. 773 988 1867 www.audubon.org/news/better-...

Better Know a Bird: the Remarkable Migration of the Secretive Sora

You wouldn’t know it by their football-shaped bodies and awkward flight, but Soras cover more ground than any other North American rail.

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 5d

Did you hear a whistle in the wetland?This mysterious marsh bird is known more for its call than its sightings. Part of the rail family, Soras feed on beetles, crayfish, snails, and spiders and are adept at hiding in dense vegetation as they distribute their weight over their thin, long feet.

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Ayesha T Qazi-Lampert @ayeshaqazilampert.bsky.social · 8d

If you’re looking for a book club and reading community to process all that is happening in the environmental world, join us!

This space is for you! Bring a friend or share with your network to anyone who may find this of interest 🌎💚

Ayesha T Qazi-Lampert @ayeshaqazilampert.bsky.social · 13d

Chicago environmental community,

I am excited to announce this new 3-part Climate Conversation Book Club Series in partnership with the Chicago Public Library. Join us for our 1st community discussion focusing on The Serviceberry.

All are welcome! Registration 🔗 below 🌳📚✨

A flyer for Chicago’s first climate conversation book series in partnership with Chicago Public Library scheduled at Humboldt Park Branch October 4th from 10:30am to noon

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 8d

Sure! Thank you for the link.

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 8d

She encouraged any young person seeking ways to take action to join Roots and Shoots rootsandshoots.org May generations to come know her curiosity, courage, compassion, and dedication. janegoodall.org

Roots & Shoots USA - Youth Movement of the Jane Goodall Institute

Roots & Shoots USA is the youth action program of the Jane Goodall Institute empowering young people to be the change in their communities.

rootsandshoots.org

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 8d

Just over 2 weeks ago, the Roots and Shoots Chicago Basecamp & Jane Goodall Institue hosted Dr. Jane Goodall at the Lincoln Park Zoo for free event!💛 She reminded us how important hope, persistence, & compassion are to build the future we want. She believed so strongly in the power of young people.

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 8d

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like I write a small obituary for each bird I find. I research them and find out how far they migrate, what they eat, where they live, and share that with the public. It’s my way of honoring them and coping through the emotional loss.

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 9d

Do you sometimes see/report/handle dead wildlife as a scientist (including volunteer community scientists)?

If so, do you have any strategies for dealing with the stress and grief that these encounters can cause?

I'm building a toolkit for myself and for some other stressed out folks!

context:

a woman is holding up a help wanted sign in a window

Alt: Gif of a woman taping a "help wanted" sign to a window.

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 11d

I wrote this gem of an article for @theguardian.com many moons ago and it finally published.

There is a 30 min companion documentary that is 2 years in the making that you absolutely must see 🪺 👇

www.theguardian.com/global/ng-in...

Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 27d

This is beautiful. The salt marsh sparrow may well go extinct in a few decades, but these people are keeping them afloat for now. 🐦🪺

‘A little bit of joy’: can tiny rafts save endangered sparrows from rising seas?

In Rhode Island, a small team of researchers and volunteers is fighting, against the odds, to save saltmarsh sparrows from extinction as their chicks drown in ever higher tides

www.theguardian.com

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 10d

Here’s a Northern Flicker I rescued this morning after it collided with a window:

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 10d

🚨Two more chances to receive training from Chicago Bird Collision Monitors this fall! Migration is steady, and we need your help!

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 11d

They collided with windows.

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 13d

Last day for "Winging It" at the Newberry Library www.newberry.org/calendar/win... This cookbook included in the exhibit led me down an rabbit hole of Indigenous cookbooks in the Edward E. Ayer Collection i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/se...

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 13d

Another busy rescue day! Live rescues included a Dark-Eyed Junco, Red-breasted Nuthatch, and a Tennessee warbler. Salvages included Ovenbirds, Black-throated green warbler, and a Blackpoll Warbler. Keep calling CBCM if you find something - 773 988 1867

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 13d

Yes! And they are big enough to notice and to accidentally disturb. They were eating well in the garden beds. So fascinating to watch them spin their webs with the distinctive zigzag.

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 13d

It was so still and calm when I rescued it.

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 13d

Rescued a Red-breasted Nuthatch that started to feel better! Will need to double bag this buddy for transport to Wildlife Rehabilitation for a check up.

Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 14d

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 14d

Our research took us to archives across continents, senior citizen clubs, and corners of the internet we didn’t know existed. You can follow our field notes here, & see our documentary soon. We found Nellie, but still we’re pulling on more threads… www.instagram.com/finding.nell...

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Peg Keiner @pegkeiner.bsky.social · 14d

Some say she was a Peace Corps member, but the school opened until 8 years before the Peace Corps existed. When we discovered the school’s official history was inaccurate, we applied for a National Geographic Society grant to turn our heritage mystery into a classroom curriculum.