Indiana Audubon offers urban birding tours for those curious about what avian species live in the city.

The tours start at Military Park and hit other familiar places like Monument Circle and the Indiana Statehouse.

The droning hum of grasshoppers rubbing their legs across their wings and the splashing of a rushing stream often comprise the soundtrack that accompanies bird watchers. But on a recent warm September morning, the rhythmic beat of jackhammers crushing concrete with steel and the hissing flow of rush hour traffic greeted a group of amateur ornithologists.

Bird guide Wes Homoya led half a dozen Hoosiers through a terrain that involved more asphalt than forest path. Their mission, however, remained the same: spot as many birds as possible.

The group met on the northwest corn

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