Illinois Peregrines

Chicago Peregrine Program - - - 100% volunteers - - - All for the Love of Peregrines!

Mary Hennen is the Assistant Collections Manager in the Bird Division at the Field Museum. In addition to her regular duties of caring for the ornithological collections, she directs the Chicago Peregrine Program. Mary has been involved with Peregrines since 1989 and took over as director in 1990. Work with Peregrines involves banding young, retrieving injured birds, and monitoring wild breeding pairs in Illinois.  Be sure to check out her Illinois Peregrine Facebook page.

The Chicago Peregrine Program is a wide network of volunteers, all with a goal of helping reestablish Peregrines back in the wild. From Peregrine watchers to building owners, engineers, management personnel, wildlife rehabilitators, vet technicians, city workers, collision monitors, office workers, condo residents, librarians, power plant personnel, photographers, hack site attendants, technicians, educators, and everyone who has every let us know of a Peregrine sighting.