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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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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For more than 100 years, Bird Alliance of Oregon has organized the Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in the metro area, recruiting volunteers to fan out across a 15-mile-wide circle to identify and count every bird seen or heard. Results from all Christmas Bird Counts are contributed annually to National Bird Alliance of Oregon, whose database includes data from thousands of CBC circles across North America and the world.
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Last week, Bird Alliance of Oregon’s Conservation Director Bob Sallinger provided invited testimony before the Oregon House Interim Committee on Natural Resources on the killing of a juvenile bobcat from Eugene that was killed by state agencies.
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Thanks to strong advocacy from our growing community of light-pollution activists, we have taken an important step forward on preserving dark skies in our growing city.
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Community is at the heart of Bird Alliance of Oregon, which is why our new tagline Together for Nature is a natural fit. The collective power of so many supporters is felt every day, providing the passion and resources needed to protect wildlife and wild places across the Oregon landscape.
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For far too long, the use of poisons has been a weapon of choice for agencies and individuals concerned about addressing wildlife conflicts. This spring, Oregon made two major advances in removing indiscriminate, inhumane, and dangerous wildlife poisons from our landscape.
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Enrichment is essential for any animal kept in human care like our wild residents, and even your dog, cat or guinea pig. It can come in many forms, but its purpose in the most basic form is to provide animals the opportunity to exhibit natural behaviors that are otherwise hard to simulate.
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When a second grade teacher overheard talk of an owl stuck in a school soccer net that chilly February 28 morning, she grabbed a box and some towels, and ran outside to try and help the bird who was wrapped in a cocoon of netting and mud.
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