Discover the Love of Wisconsin Bird Conservation:

Unite with Birdwatching Communities

Registration Check-in 8:30 a.m. 

Presentations (see speaker bios below) start at 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Location: UW-Green Bay’s S.T.E.M. Innovation Center
2019 Technology Way
Green Bay, WI 54311

Registration for UnConvention (Access the registration form here!)

• General – $25.00
• Student – $15.00

Registration for Friday October 31 Field Trip (details TBD)

• General – free

Join us for a casual "birdy" day talking about monitoring birds, falconry and conservation, wild rice restoration, bird population studies, birdwatching, and more. Enjoy a wide variety of talks that include eBird for beginners or advanced eBird for current eBird users. This UnConvention is an opportunity to participate, engage, and network during the day.

Registration includes morning coffee and box lunch. Registrants will be contacted about the lunch menu. 

Walk-ins are welcome, but lunch may not be available unless preregistered. Please bring cash or check for walk-in registration payment.

Find the UnConvention program schedule here.

We look forward to seeing you at the UnConvention in Green Bay!

UnConvention 2025 Speaker Bios

Amy Carrozzino-Lyon (Wetlands, Waterfowl, and Wild Rice: Restoration and Outreach on the Green Bay West Shore)

Amy Carrozzino-Lyon works at University of Wisconsin- Green Bay as a Restoration Scientist and Green Bay Project Coordinator. In this role, she works with conservation partners on ecological restoration efforts in coastal wetlands and engages with K-12 students and educators through outreach programming. Amy also serves as the Education & Outreach Coordinator on the Board of Directors for the Northeastern Wisconsin Bird Alliance.

Daniel "Danny" Erickson (Eyes on the Sky: Monitoring Raptor Migration)

Daniel Erickson is the Banding Director at Cedar Grove Ornithological Research Station. A birder from Wauwatosa, WI, his life-long interest in nature and biology led him to study wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Danny has been fortunate to learn from many skilled raptor researchers at HawkWatch International, The Peregrine Fund, Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, and Mackinac Straits Raptor Watch honing his raptor banding abilities. Since 2021, Danny oversees the raptor count and banding operations each fall at Cedar Grove Ornithological Research Station continuing its mission monitoring long-term avian migration trends in the Western Great Lakes. He is a second-year master's student at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay studying the full-annual cycle movement ecology of Sharp-shinned Hawks using remote transmitters.

Tom Prestby (Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II – Findings, Updates, and More as Publishing Nears)

Tom Prestby is the Wisconsin Conservation Manager at Audubon Great Lakes. He leads Audubon’s wetland restoration, bird monitoring, and working lands conservation initiatives in Wisconsin including Audubon Conservation Ranching in grasslands and Bird Friendly Maple in forests. He also helps partners deliver conservation to Important Bird Areas in the state. From childhood Prestby has been driven by a passion for birds, which has fueled a career focused on bird conservation. He has a B.S. degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a M.S. degree from University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where he researched shorebirds and terns for his thesis. Prestby has researched and monitored birds across the state of Wisconsin for about 20 years, including conducting surveys for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, serving as a coordinator of the Wisconsin eBird review team, and being a leader of Wisconsin Breeding Bird Atlas II. He lives just outside of Green Bay with his wife, 3-year-old and newborn sons, and dog.