Beginning Birding and Sauvie Island Exploration (Sundays: Feb, Mar, Apr)
Join Greg & Ricky for three Sunday winter morning explorations at one of Oregon’s most accessible Important Bird Areas, Sauvie Island Wildlife Area.
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Celebrate OWLtober: Collage Backyard Bird – Great Horned Owl
Join collage artist Teal Buehler and discover fun ways to create collaged birds and their habitats on recycled paper.
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Catio Tour 2024
The 2024 Catio Tour on Saturday, September 7 is self-guided and all in-person, with stops from SE Portland to Vancouver, WA. You’ll see a variety of catios (outdoor cat enclosures), talk with the people who built them, and meet the cats who enjoy them (feline attitude permitting)!
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Go Lights Out 2024
Mark your calendar for Lights Out Portland, a one-night event in which residential households and commercial buildings dim their lighting in order to raise awareness about the impact of light pollution on migrating birds, about wasted energy in the form of light thrown up into the sky, and about preserving our ability to see stars from the city.
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Bird Journals: Getting the Gist
In this session, we will practice simplifying; drawing and painting only what is needed. New ways of seeing, so you are able to draw what is there. Add some paint…again, simply and effectively suggesting the bird you are wanting to record.
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Bird Journals: Simplifying Details *FULL*
In this class, we will focus on details of journaling when desired. Eyes, bills, wings, tails, legs, and feet can be represented in simple ways with pen and paints. Also, textures, spots, and stripes can be done easily with a brush.
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Fall Birding Paddle with Columbia Slough Watershed Council
Join us for an early fall birding paddle with Columbia Slough Watershed Council, Friends of Trees, and Nidus Consulting.
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Sauvie Island Native Plant Sale: Benefiting Bird Alliance of Oregon
May is a great month to add bird- and bee-friendly native plants to your yard. Shop at Sauvie Island Natives between May 1 and May 31, and if you mention Bird Alliance of Oregon, 25% of the sale will go to fund our work.
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Go Lights Out Spring 2024
Mark your calendar for Lights Out Portland, in which residential households and commercial buildings dim their lighting in order to raise awareness about the impact of light pollution on migrating birds, about wasted energy in the form of light thrown up into the sky, and about preserving our ability to see stars from the city.
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Malheur Big Sit 2024
Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day at our third annual Malheur Big Sit. This is an accessible, inclusive outing and BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and beginning birders and bird-enthusiasts are welcome.
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