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Join us for the fourth lecture of the 2022 Compelling Voices in Birding and Conservation brought to you by CAS, COS, and the Nature MuseumIn January 2021, Alison Világ set off on a journey charted by The State of the Birds (North American Bird Conservation Initiative), The 500 Most Important Bird Areas in the United States (American Bird Conservancy), and Google Maps’ “avoid highways” option. Rather than amassing a lengthy list, she was more interested in celebrating birds for their essence. Her intent through this was to gather stories for a book about vulnerable bird species and their vital places.
Alison traveled alone for much of the year, sleeping most nights in the back of her Toyota Tacoma. As the year progressed, Alison’s experiences with her own vulnerability as a woman alone on the road melded into her accumulating body of work. She’ll be sharing scenes from the human and natural–and the inner–landscapes traveled: Mountain Quail reclaiming a logging road never completed because it desecrated sacred Yurok land. Passing the dark hours of Louisiana nights by surveying for Yellow and Black Rails in saltmarsh illumined by natural gas plants and offshore rigs. Being forced off the road by a prairie storm while traveling to a Lesser Prairie-Chicken lek.
About the speaker:
Alison is a writer, with recent essays published in Birding, Jack Pine Warbler, and the Cornell University Press anthology When Birds Are Near. Alison currently lives in northern Michigan and works seasonally at Whitefish Point Bird Observatory. She’s also guided in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands and assisted the Illinois Natural History Survey’s avian work in Cook County Forest Preserves.
This event will be held at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Drinks for purchase begin at 6:00pm, program begins at 6:30pm. The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Chicago Ornithological Society, and the Chicago Audubon Society are proud to present the Compelling Voices in Birding and Conservation series.
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Compelling Voices in Birding and Conservation
Join us for energizing and engaging presentations focused around birding and conservation. This special series features four unique speakers with very different backgrounds and experiences in the birding community.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 North Cannon Drive,Chicago,IL,United States
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