Portland’s Economic Opportunities Analysis: An Obscure Process with Huge Implications
This fall, the City will do a periodic update of its Economic Opportunities Analysis (EOA), which looks at supply and demand of industrial land over a twenty-year period.
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A Senseless Slaughter Continues: Cormorants in the Crosshairs Again
Double-crested Cormorants have long been one of the most persecuted species in North America. Sadly, the agency charged with protecting them, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), has bowed time and time again to interests that want to kill cormorants for doing what they need to do to survive: eating fish.
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Becoming Birds: Decolonizing Ecoliteracy
This life full of birds has not only taught me much of what I know about the places that I have lived in, but reinforced much of my belief that I can teach almost anything through birds.
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How Are the Chapman Swifts Doing in the Smoke?
We all know and love the Chapman Vaux’s Swifts. Here are the observations from staffer Candace Larson on how they are behaving in the midst of the smoke.
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The Quest for Darker Skies over Portland
September is upon us, and the southbound migration of our avian friends is well underway. Artificial light in the night sky drowns out the stars that birds use to navigate, pulling them off course and into lit areas where they can become entrapped in light, in some cases even inadvertently calling other birds into hazardously lit areas.
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Joseph Saunders: Macro Photographer and BlackAFinSTEM Member
Macro photographer Joseph Saunders dives into the importance of invertebrates, the accessibility of macro photography, pro tips for people interested in macro, and why some of nature’s most feared creatures just aren’t that scary.
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In the Admit Room
Spend a day in the life of Wildlife Care Center Manager Stephanie Herman as she juggles baby bird feeding, animal intakes, hotline calls, and more as she works alongside our team to keep the center running for more than 3,700 animal patients this year.
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Field Notes: Molt Strategies
During late summer the plumages of young birds are fresher and not overly worn. Adults on the other hand show dull, worn feathers. In the fall adults have a full molt including the wings and tail feathers. Juveniles have a full body molt in the fall a month or so later than the adults, but retain their tail and primary and secondary wing feathers.
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Remembering Kahler Martinson
Kahler was one of the giants of Portland Audubon over the past three decades, serving on our board of directors, Conservation Committee, and two tours of duty donating his time as Interim Executive Director during periods of transition.
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