A female Burrowing Owl and her chicks stand outside an artificial nest on an Army base in Oregon. The installation of burrows has helped the species recover on the base. Photo by Alexander Clark
The U.S. Interior Department review of national monument designations has produced recommendations that, if enacted, would reduce protection of important habitat for species listed under … Read More “Monument review threatens Northern Spotted Owl”
Although many birders think of California Condors as birds of southern California and the arid Southwest, their historical range stretches from Baja California to British … Read More “Condors may soar over the Pacific Northwest again by 2019”
What can a hummingbird reveal about the health of a forest? Conservationists and forest-products companies will try to answer this question later this year in … Read More “Partnership targets Rufous Hummingbird, other forest birds”
In a delightful essay in our December 2016 issue, Maeve Kim, a Vermont birder, teacher, musician, and writer, describes the many ways that birding can amuse, delight, … Read More “How tiny Vaux’s Swifts create a giant annual spectacle”
Lewis’s Woodpecker is stunning and unmistakable. It’s also one of the highest-priority bird species in North America. Habitat that the gray-collared bird relies on — … Read More “Lewis’s Woodpecker wins habitat protection in Oregon”
In On the Move, our regular column about migration, we present pairs of distribution maps from eBird that you can use to compare where interesting … Read More “eBird Maps show where to find Calliope Hummingbird”
Now is the time to see wintering Harlequin Ducks, the subject of Cheryl Lyn Dybas’s cover story of our February 2016 issue. Winter strongholds for … Read More “Five views of dazzling Harlequin Duck, and how to identify it”
In On the Move, our regular column about migration, we present pairs of distribution maps from eBird that you can use to compare where interesting birds are at … Read More “eBird maps show where to look for Calliope Hummingbird”
Hatfield Lakes is a wastewater-treatment facility about nine miles east of Bend, in central Oregon, and one of the locations we named a Hotspot Near … Read More “Hotspot update: Back to Hatfield Lakes, Bend, Oregon”
