Number 318 - Fall 2011
FEATURES

Director's Message
by Tom Clay, Executive Director
Illinois Audubon Society


Sampling Secret Birds at Prairie Ridge Sate Natural Area
by Mark Alessi, S. Simpson, L. Harrison, B. Shelby,
T. Esker & J. Walk


Watching the Devil's Horses Pass By
by Celeste Mazzacano


Amur Honesuckle, the Perfect Invasive
by William McClain

Putting Students to the Challenge
by Jessica Prince

The Great Monroe County Fire of 1953
by William McClain

Winter Visitors
by Bob Andrini

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On the cover -- An adult black-crowned night-heron looks over the pond at the Lincoln Park Zoo Rookery in Chicago. Several of these waders share a nesting colony there each summer. Photograph by Bob Schifo of the Middlefork Chapter.