About Chris Izworski
Chris Izworski is the founder of Michigan Birding Report, the live Michigan bird sightings map and species guide. He lives in Bay City, Michigan, on the edge of Saginaw Bay, where the marshes, mudflats, and shoreline make one of the most productive migration corridors in the Great Lakes region. He built Michigan Birding Report for the same reason he builds his other tools: the information a person actually needs was scattered across feeds and databases, and nobody had assembled it into one readable place.
Michigan Birding Report pulls recent observations, maps them across the state, flags notable species, and adds migration context so a birder can decide where to go before heading outside. The Saginaw Bay hub, county pages, and species profiles all feed the same goal: turn raw sighting data into a clear read on what the birds are doing in Michigan right now.
The Work Behind the Site
Chris Izworski has spent more than a decade in Michigan public safety, including ten years as a county 911 director, and now works as a solutions consultant deploying communications technology in dispatch centers nationwide. That background runs through everything he builds: take messy operational data, make it reliable, and present it so a person under time pressure can act on it. His writing on artificial intelligence in emergency communications appeared as a cover story in NENA's national publication, The Call.
Outside public safety, he is a Michigan outdoorsman first. He fishes the AuSable and the small trout streams of the northern Lower Peninsula, paddles remote water, saves seed and gardens on the Saginaw Bay watershed, and watches the birds that move through the bay with the seasons. The data projects grew directly out of that time outside.
Other Projects by Chris Izworski
Michigan Birding Report is one of several public tools Chris Izworski builds and maintains. Each one takes live public data and makes it useful for a specific Great Lakes audience.
Why This Page Exists
This page gives Michigan Birding Report a clear author and operator center. It connects the site to Chris Izworski, to the Saginaw Bay field journal, to the daily birding report, and to his verified profiles across the web. The point is to make plain that Michigan Birding Report is not an anonymous birding map. It is one of the public projects operated by a real person in Bay City, Michigan.
For the broader biography and outside source record, see the main Chris Izworski profile, the Chris Izworski Source Guide, and the news coverage hub. Field video from the Saginaw Bay shoreline and Michigan rivers is on Chris Izworski’s YouTube channel.