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Attention, bird watchers!
 Year-round, you’ll find that the Chicago Botanic Garden has some of the best bird-watching in the region. Varied habitats from wide-open prairie to native oak woodland, as well as 81 acres of waterways, attract birds of many kinds, from owls to egrets, herons to horned grebes. More that 242 bird species have been sighted at the Garden.
Spring and fall are peak seasons for migratory birds such as warblers, orioles, tanagers, vireos and flycatchers, according to Naturalist Jim Steffen, who supervises native habitat areas and has, with the aid of several local bird experts, compiled a list of Birds of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Resident summer-breeding birds include not only goldfinches, mourning doves, cardinals and song sparrows, but also red-bellied woodpeckers, chickadees and Eastern wood peewees. You might even glimpse a yellow rail, snowy egret or Townsend’s warbler–all rare species that have been spotted at the Garden. Bird enthusiasts can also take advantage of bird walks offered through the School of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Members travel program goes to cyberspace
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 Tour the great garden spots of the world with the Chicago Botanic
Garden.
A new Web site area keeps you up to date with the latest trips available to Garden members.
Click here for information.
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Library goes online
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 Browse the new Web site area for the Chicago Botanic Garden Library.
Find out about the collection, services and catalog. Read Garden reviewers’ book reviews of recently published books.
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 Would you like to know which plants are in the Garden's collections? A new Web site area includes a searchable database of all the Garden's plants.
You can also find out how the Garden collects plants around the world and meet the people behind the plants.
Check it out at www.chicagobotanic.org/research/collections.
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Become a member online
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Purchase a membership to the Chicago Botanic Garden—now online
at www.chicagobotanic.org/member.
This new secure site is convenient for membership and gift membership purchases—24 hours a day.
For phone service, call (847) 835-8215 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
weekdays; for walk-in service, visit the Membership Desk 9 a.m.
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Want to volunteer?
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| More than 800 volunteers help the Chicago Botanic Garden to present
educational programs and outstanding gardens to the public.
Find out about joining the Garden’s "family" of volunteers at www.chicagobotanic.org/volunteer. Or call (847) 835-8281.
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Plan your visit with Garden map
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Just added, a new map shows you the diverse gardens and native habitat areas of the
385-acre Chicago Botanic Garden.
Use it to plan your visit!
New—take a virtual tour by clicking on gardens.
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Virtual tours
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All year long on this Web site you can wander the Chicago Botanic
Garden’s paths. And now you’ll find virtual tours of three areas—the
English Walled Garden, the Enabling Garden and McDonald Woods.
Try them out—look around and enjoy learning from what you see.
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Whether you have a green thumb or talents of other kinds, find
out about job openings at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
This Web site now posts employment opportunities in all areas,
from garden management to graphics, visitor services to community
education.
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Garden book available
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 Portrait of a Garden, the beautiful new full-color book about the Chicago Botanic
Garden, is in stock at the Garden Shop for only $12.95 plus shipping.
Order your copy by calling (847) 835-8336.
An online order form is available here. |
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| Asian longhorned beetle advisory |
| A current feature of the Chicago Botanic Garden's Web site highlights
how to protect trees from the Asian longhorned beetle—and news
in the battle against the beetle.
Be able to identify the Asian longhorned beetle and plant to resist
it.
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Gardening the easy-does-it way
Grow greener with new Garden publications.
The Garden for Life series features these new titles:
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• Designing Your Home Enabling Garden
• Vertical Gardening
• Barrier-Free Gardening in Containers
• Raised Bed Gardening
• Healthy Habits for Gardening
• Universal Design
• Enabling Tool Resources
• Horticultural Therapy Resources
• Paving Alternatives
• Sensational Plants
• Horticultural Therapy: Helping People Grow
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Order your copies now.
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