A Voice for Wildlife: Volunteer Wildlife Solutions Counselors

Anyone could answer the phone and provide our address and some simple instructions about where to take an injured bird or animal. But the Solutions Counselor role goes far beyond that. “The heart of the job is both supporting and providing guidance to those in crisis,” says Solutions Counselor Roberta Jortner.

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Black Oystercatchers, Western Gulls at Three Arch Rocks at Cape Meare

Bird Alliance of Oregon 2023 Legislative Conservation Priorities

The 2023 Oregon legislative session kicked off its biannual “long session” with thousands of bills in play. As in years past we will be tracking bills to support and oppose for the next several months until the session ends in June. Bird Alliance of Oregon is prioritizing several important bills and budget requests that will advance protections for wildlife and habitats and help combat climate change.

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Joe Liebezeit and Micah Meskel

Introducing Our Interim Conservation Directors

Joe Liebezeit will serve as interim statewide conservation director, and Micah Meskel will serve as interim urban conservation director while we begin the search for a new conservation director. Together they possess over 20 years of experience at Bird Alliance of Oregon and significantly longer over their careers.

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Great Blue Heron landing

FAQs About Portland Audubon Decision to Change the Name Audubon

In order to best achieve our mission as an organization committed to racial equity and the environment, we cannot continue to condone bearing a name that celebrates a slaveholder who embraced white supremacist systems. Here are some FAQs to further explain how and why this decision was made.

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James Davis doing keynote address at UERC Luncheon in 2007

Remembering James Davis

In December 2022, the Bird Alliance of Oregon community lost a beloved member of the flock. James Davis, an amazing naturalist and educator, served as Bird Alliance of Oregon’s first director of education and his vision and expertise laid the foundation for much of the programming that continues to this day.

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