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April is Citizen Science Month! Also called community science or participatory science, KPL has chosen Journey North to be our Citizen Science project for 2026. In this virtual program, Caroline Nickerson of SciStarter, will introduce the free tools and projects available on SciStarter.org including Journey North.  By the end of the virtual program, attendees will be ready to participate in Journey North!

What is Journey North?
Journey North is a community science program of the UW-Madison Arboretum. Thousands of volunteers across North America will contribute observational data that help track wildlife migration and seasonal change. Journey North volunteers track the migration of:

• monarch butterflies
• six species of hummingbirds 
• American robins 
• common loons 
• red-winged blackbirds 
• Baltimore, Bullocks and orchard orioles 
• barn swallows
• bald eagles