Writing haiku is for everyone! Haiku is a traditional, short form of Japanese poetry through which the poet conveys their experience of nature via a simple written formula. Using this simple formula, anyone can write haiku! This class introduces participants to classical haiku poetry, and guides them to write their own haiku poems while spending time in nature.
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Hone your ear birding with this field trip to one of our best urban forests. The lush forest of Tryon Creek is the perfect place to practice recognizing the vocalizations of our favorite PNW songbirds.
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Early May is the best time to visit this iconic National Wildlife Refuge, as the trails open, and large numbers of waterfowl, shorebirds, and songbirds migrate through.
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Join Andrea Kreiner, a certified nature and forest therapy guide, for a slow and mindful sensory journey to connect with nature at the Bird Alliance of Oregon Wildlife Sanctuary.
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Mt Tabor is the most frequently birded park in Portland and has some great trees. If the birds are out and active, we will bird the park and practice using as specific of language as possible to describe where we are seeing the birds and how they are interacting with the plants around them. If the birds are quiet, we will find flowering trees and dig into the details of how we can differentiate between their flowers. Flowers are often not around for very long and the timing is very important when identifying trees by their flowers.
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Join us on the Oregon Coast for a Big Sit to celebrate migratory birds!
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Join us for BIPOC only guided adventure into the outdoors – where we’ll explore the beauty and diversity of birdlife, and our cultural connections to the land and one another.
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Join John Rakestraw to search for a variety reptiles and amphibians at Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve.
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Join Bird Alliance of Oregon for an accessible birding outing at Whitaker Ponds! This birding hotspot Portland boasts a wide variety of songbirds and waterfowl.
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Join John Rakestraw to search for a variety of colorful migratory birds.
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