Start your 2025 checklist off with a celebration of birds that can be found in Washington County during this time of year.
Explore Clackamas County hotspots on New Year's Day with Dan van den Broek!
In this Zoom class, students will paint the Bewick's Wren, learning how to mix neutral colors, as well as techniques of layering colors to create various feather patterns. Ronna Fujisawa of Salty Water Art will be your guide through the step-by-step process of painting birds in watercolor.
The new year is a great time to try something new! In this beginner-focused trip, we’ll visit Sauvie Island, the Portland area’s most storied birding location, and learn how to find and identify birds of prey, cranes, geese, songbirds and more.
In this class, you will learn to observe more skillfully and translate it into your journal. We'll focus on simplyfying and drawing exactly what is needed to represent the birds you see.
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.
In this webinar, we will talk about a different way to approach how you target animals to see, whether you are in your local park or on a trip half a world away. This alternate approach is family listing: aiming not to check off every species of sparrow, say, in your area, but to observe as much familial diversity as possible, from birds to reptiles to mammals.
This class will help you identify our winter waterfowl (with an emphasis on long-distance ID), as well as the herons and rails that share the winter Wetlands.
While the massive flocks of waterfowl often steal the show, Fernhill Wetlands is the winter home to a myriad of other species. This walk will explore the open water, marshlands, woods, and brushy patches that make this site such a birding hotspot.
Visit some lesser-known birding spots along the Willamette River of the south metro area with Dan van den Broek.
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.
Downhearted about the next four years? A look at the history of the conservation movement suggests the future holds more possibilities than it may seem. Join journalist Michelle Nijhuis, author of the book Beloved Beasts, for a discussion about conservation victories and opportunities in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Feeding birds is a great way to enjoy a variety of species from the comfort of home. This class will show you how to feed effectively and safely.
For the first time in 30 years, the Forest Service is amending the plan, which is a double-edged sword: this is an opportunity to strengthen or weaken habitat protections. Come learn from Joe Liebezeit, Statewide Conservation Director, more about why this amendment process matters and what you can do to weigh in!
For the first time in 30 years, the Forest Service is amending the plan, which is a double-edged sword: this is an opportunity to strengthen or weaken habitat protections. Come learn from Joe Liebezeit, Statewide Conservation Director, more about why this amendment process matters and what you can do to weigh in!
In this beginners’-focused trip, we’ll search for and practice identifying raptors along the Crown Zellerbach Trail in Scappoose.
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.
In this class, students will paint a fun close up of a Northern Flicker, learning how to mix neutral colors, as well as techniques of layering colors to create various feather patterns. Your instructor, Ronna Fujisawa of Salty Water Art, will be your guide through the step-by-step process of painting birds in watercolor.
Join Dan van den Broek to visit lesser-known birding spots along the Willamette River.
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 wildlife photographer and author, Faraaz Abdool, to learn the basics of bird photography, and then how to master it in a 6-part series.
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 Oregon Sierra Club for a watch party of the hearing that will decide the fate of PGE’s Harborton Reliability Project.
Join wildlife photographer and author, Faraaz Abdool, to learn the basics of bird photography, and then how to master it in a 6-part series.
Join us at Antler Gallery for their annual benefit show, “Brink.” The incredible nature-inspired artwork centers endangered and extinct species, connecting both with our conservation mission and the values of Antler Gallery. Come see the exquisite art, sip wine donated by Elk Cove Vineyards, and 20% of the art sale proceeds will go to Bird Alliance of Oregon!
Sauvie Island, with its abundant open spaces and mix of habitats, is host to a large population of wintering raptors. In this beginner’s-focused field trip we’ll search for and practice identifying hawks, harriers, eagles and falcons on Sauvie Island.
Join Greg & Ricky for three Saturday winter morning explorations at one of Oregon’s most accessible Important Bird Areas, Sauvie Island Wildlife Area.
Join Greg & Ricky for three Sunday winter morning explorations at one of Oregon’s most accessible Important Bird Areas, Sauvie Island Wildlife Area.
