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.
Getting interested in birds? Get to know 10 species that are easily found and will give you practice in observation and listening.
Register for no school day camp, so the child in your life can learn, play, and explore, all while making friends, having fun and connecting to the natural world.
Register for no school day camp, so the child in your life can learn, play, and explore, all while making friends, having fun and connecting to the natural world.
Join Bird Alliance of Oregon and the Burns Paiute Tribe’s Natural Resources Department to plant native vegetation in the uplands of the Tribe’s property along the Malheur River (and of course doing some great bird watching!).
Learn the basics for identifying birds.
Join local arborist, ecologist and birder Ryan Gilpin on a series of classes designed to help birders explore the plant world. Every month, Ryan will focus on a particular characteristic of trees (such as leaves or bark) and use that character to understand more about the plant. This session will focus on flowers. Through coupled classroom and field sessions Ryan will help you increase your ability to describe that plant and connect to the natural world around you.
Join Bird Alliance of Oregon and the Burns Paiute Tribe’s Natural Resources Department to plant Oregon’s rarest grass, and one of the rarest grasses in the U.S. at the Tribe’s Logan Valley property (and of course doing some great bird watching!).
Now that we have all the pieces (conifers, flowers, leaves, fruit), we can practice putting it all together while birding both the upper urban area around the parking lot and the lower natural area. We should be able to describe which tree we are seeing a good bird in to our fellow students and identify most trees to be able to learn more about them. We will scout for fruit, and prepare for the much more intimidating season rapidly approaching, winter tree identification.
