

May 1, 2023
Technological advances are offering amazing insights into nature. Here are two videos, one produced from trail cam images and the second a video picked up on a Ring doorbell. Have you captured fun or amazing footage of wildlife? We’d love to see what wildlife wonders are happening near you!
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May 1, 2023
Safety in numbers is the strategy employed by great blue herons and other breeding heron species that nest in rookeries. Check out this fun piece on the life history of the great blue heron.
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May 1, 2023
When many of us put our hunting gear away for the year we feel a twinge of sadness that the season is over. But, when hunting season is over habitat season begins. Here’s some tips for what you can do to help provide quality habitat to support wildlife.
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May 1, 2023
As we flock further into the second decade of this millennium, many programs and projects are switching to online-based features in an effort to better promote eco-friendliness, reduce wasted postage, and, more importantly, increase ease of access for constituents and data recovery. The IDNR Turkey Brood Survey is one such project.
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May 1, 2023
Praying mantises’ camouflaged colorations make them difficult to find but helps them in catching prey. Three species can be found in Illinois but only one is a native species, and it isn’t the most common of the three.
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