Teresa Wicks, the Eastern Oregon Biologist and Program Manager for the Bird Alliance of Oregon, will present on bird productivity in the Klamath Refuges and the management of botulism there. The program will start at 6pm. Please note the earlier start time. Feel free to come early for dinner and a beverage. There is typically […]
An update on the Central Oregon Pinyon Jay Habitat Ecology Project. Alex Wilson will discuss how we collected Pinyon Jay Habitat use data during the breeding season across central Oregon. The focus will be on analysis of the backpack transmitter data we collected this year, and what our plans are moving forward to meet the […]
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Ospreys and Osprey Watch Learn about osprey natural history and how you can get involved in the community science project Osprey Watch. This project helps us monitor these incredible sentinel species and better understand environmental trends across the region. We’ll also be joined by Elise Jackson from Pacific Power, who will share information about Pacific […]
Caterpillars are the single most important insect in the diet of most terrestrial birds, yet our knowledge of these larval marvels often begins and ends with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. So, let’s get caught up on the latest research. We’ll explore the life cycles of each of the 160,000 species of caterpillars (or at least […]
Visions of Desert Life with Alan Contreras Long-time Oregon birder and writer Alan Contreras will present an unusual program of poems, stories and images related to birds, wildlife and the human experience of eastern Oregon. He will read from his own work and the work of other writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Hastings […]
How to count four and a half million raptors… Veracruz and its River of Raptors with Steve Dougill. North America hosts the largest raptor migration in the world each fall in Veracruz, Mexico. But it’s a lot more than just the birds of prey; there’s millions of migrating songbirds and storks and pelicans and anhinga […]
Birders' Night: Tracking Lewis’s Woodpecker Migration Using Motus Technology with Kaly Adkins Come learn about how wildlife biologists from the state, a variety of NGOs and Cal Poly Humboldt have collaborated to learn about migratory pathways of Lewis’s Woodpeckers throughout the PNW using Motus wildlife tracking technology. This technology can be expanded to a variety […]
Ducks Unlimited Wetland Restoration for Wetland Habitat Please join us August 13 to hear Ducks Unlimited (DU) Biologist Ashley Tunstall share some of the stories behind conserving one of North America's most important migratory bird corridors. Spoiler alert: it takes a lot of great partners, and a lot more than ducks to make it happen. […]
Birders' Night: Jeff Fleischer on the Winter Raptor Surveys. Jeff will be talking about how the project started, how it was designed, and how and where routes have been created over the 22 years of the project. He will also share statistics regarding the data that has been collected and a selection of excellent photos […]
Birders' Night: Stu Garrett on Oregon’s Sagebrush Steppe and the birds that live there. Stu will present an update on the East Cascades Bird Alliance Brothers Project. The Project's goals are to explore methods to restore the sagebrush steppe in eastern Deschutes County for the benefit of sage-grouse, pronghorn, pygmy rabbits, and other species. Stu […]
Marina Richie will give a photo-filled tour of her new book, featuring birds as guides to a life-filled, vertical world of old-growth forests. Set mostly in Oregon, Feathered Forest weaves in memoir, as well as places and people familiar to birders of the Bend area. From Varied Thrushes in the understory to Great Gray Owls […]