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  • researcher holding a bird in hand

    Following in the footsteps of early 20th century naturalist Elizabeth Kerr

    Jun 13, 2023 4:15 pm
  • researcher looking at tray of ice and mosquitoes in a petri dish

    Starving mosquitoes for science

    Feb 22, 2024 8:00 am

    A behind the scenes look at the Medical Entomology Laboratory at Illinois Nature History Survey and the work of Jiayue (Gabriel) Yan on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

  • cute cuddly brown bat

    What’s the deal with bats and coronavirus?

    May 4, 2022 11:00 am

    In Outdoor Magazine, INHS bat biologist Tara C. Hohoff writes about how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated negative impressions about bats and shares ways we can support bats in Illinois. 

  • farmer tosses a net into a prawn and rice farm pond

    Learning by listening to the people who live it

    Mar 18, 2024 8:00 am

    Experts from Illinois visit a cooperative prawn and rice farm in Southeast Vietnam to hear the farmers' stories about their challenges and adaptations to a changing climate. 

  • Blue and green-winted teal and northern pintail seen on the Illinois River during an aerial waterfowl inventory over Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge in Havana.

    Counting ducks from 500 feet above

    Dec 21, 2021 8:15 am

    Josh Osborn has a unique job. The Navy veteran turned ecologist leads the waterfowl aerial inventories from the Illinois Natural History Survey's Forbes Biological Station in Havana. Taking to the skies every autumn and spring during migration seasons, Osborn makes regular educated estimates of the number and types of birds flocking along 212 miles of the Illinois River and 214 miles of the Mississippi River.