Planting for Birds with Steve Betchkal

Name: Planting for Birds with Steve Betchkal
Start: 2025-10-11T13:30:00-05:00
Location: Wehr Nature Center

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 01:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Wehr Nature Center | Franklin, WI

WMAS and the Milwaukee Southwest/Wehr chapter of Wild Ones are hosting a presentation by Steve Betchkal on October 11 at 1:30 pm at the Wehr Nature Center.
Learn about planting native plants to support birds and pollinators in our backyards. Birds need four basic natural resources to survive; food, water, cover, and nesting structure. You can ensure that they have a place to build a nest and a way to avoid predators by designing a yard rich in diverse native plants. Ornithologist Steve Betchkal offers a thoughtful blueprint.
Steve Betchkal (BETCH-cull) of Eau Claire has hiked/camped/backpacked/traveled all 50 U.S. states & Puerto Rico, 88 National Wildlife Refuges, 85 National Parks, 55 National Forests, & 4 Canadian provinces in pursuit of wild birds. In 2017 he worked in the Galápagos for Lindblad-National Geographic.
Steve is an ornithologist, ecologist, Eau Claire liaison for Welcome Back Bird Day, and co-editor of Wisconsin’s Favorite Bird Haunts. Over 37 years as a journalist, he has uniquely earned six Emmys, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and induction into the Upper Midwest Regional Emmy’s Silver Circle in Chippewa Valley history.
Books available at the program:
Make Birds Not War: Step by Step Instructions for Saving the World a Birder at a Time -- A 188 page ($10)
Cat Tales, Life Two 40 pages, softcover. Smarticus Publishing, Eau Claire ISBN 0-9822738-5-1 ($10)
The Blessing of the Beasts or 101 Apologus Nights (280 pp, fiction. 2021 ($10)
Walk the Walk, Camp the Camp, Bird the Bird (The Fantastic Quest to Every Species of Bird on Planet Earth ($15)