We’ve got four home improvement projects that will both benefit your space and wildlife. More than ever, our homes are our sanctuaries. Let’s make them (at least the outside parts) sanctuaries for wildlife too.
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The time has come to get to officially meet your neighbors: the birds. For many folks, both birders and people who are new to birding alike, watching the birds just outside our doors brings joy during hard times.
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This winter, Portland Audubon and the Tribe’s Wildlife Program organized a Tu-Wa-Kii Nobi CBC4Kids (Christmas Bird Count for Kids) program.
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Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, and spring is officially here! There’s no better time than now to level up your birding skills, and if you’re a newer birder, learning songs and calls is a great place to start.
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This past year was a wild ride. We cared for 4,011 animals, a record high! To put that in perspective, in 2018 we cared for just over 3,000 animals, so that’s almost a 30% increase in just one year. Interestingly, we saw increases in species intakes across the board, with native mammals (like bats, chipmunks, and ground squirrels) representing the only statistically significant proportional increase.
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Disabled Hikers follows the important movement of folks from marginalized communities challenging the stereotypes that are consistently reinforced on billboards, TV, movies, and magazines: that hikers are white, straight, thin, young, affluent, and able bodied.
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n January 4, 2020, the 94th Annual Portland Christmas Bird Count (CBC) began under surprisingly pleasant skies. By the end of the day, a stalwart and somewhat soggy corps of 269 field birders (a new record!) plus 112 feeder watchers had tallied 122 species and nearly 70,000 individual birds, all seen and heard within our 15-mile diameter count circle.
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For the eighth year in a row, Niel and Susannah will be supporting Portland Audubon by donating 20% of proceeds from the upcoming shows BRINK and Ascent, showing simultaneously at their adjoining galleries starting on January 30.
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Planting and protecting trees is one of the simplest and most effective ways that we can improve the health of our urban environment.
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Can one yard make a difference? The answer is an emphatic yes. More than a decade ago, a handful of neighbors eager to restore native habitat in SW Portland started the first iteration of the Backyard Habitat Certification Program, which ultimately sparked a movement that has now spread to more than 6,000 yards across the Portland-Vancouver Metro Region.
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