Classes and Field Trips
Bird Alliance of Oregon offers online and outdoors classes, field trips and birding days that spark curiosity, foster a deeper understanding of the natural world, and inspire people to protect native wildlife and their habitat. Our programs are open to people of all skill levels and abilities, with a focus on natural history, regional conservation issues, the intersection of art and the environment, and of course, birds and wildlife. When you take a class with Bird Alliance of Oregon, you are supporting our work to protect wildlife, wild places, and humans alike.
All experience levels and new birders are always welcome.
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Birding Oregon Hotspots: The Best of the Portland Metro Area
Let’s Hear it for the Girls: Demystifying Female Birds
Birding Day: Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge
Accessible Birding Outing at Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden
Birds in Flight Photography
Watercolor Painting with Ronna: The Bohemian Waxwing
Watercolor Painting In-Person with Ronna: The Mourning Dove
Birding Day: Birding at Mount St. Helens Hummocks & Coldwater Lake
Field Class: Habitat Gardening – Taking It To the Next Level
Macro Photography
Ravens, Crows, Magpies, and Jays of Oregon
Raptors in Flight
Advocacy Meet and Greet
Fall Birding Paddle with Columbia Slough Watershed Council
Birding Day: Clatsop Coast
Saturday Series: Beginning Field Birding and Sauvie Island Exploration
Bird Journals: Getting the Gist
Sunday Series: Beginning Field Birding and Sauvie Island Exploration
Forest Therapy at Bird Alliance of Oregon Wildlife Sanctuary
Celebrate OWLtober: Online Watercolor Painting with Ronna: The Barn Owl
OWLtober: Understanding Owls
10 Birds to Know
Field Class: Bird Language – Group Habitat Mapping
How to Identify Birds
Botany for Birders: Fruit
OWLtober: Owls of Portland
Field Trip: Botany for Birders – Fruit at Oaks Bottom
Celebrate OWLtober: Collage Backyard Bird – Great Horned Owl
Birding Day: Birding the Willamette Hotspots
The Ecology of Feathers
Fifty Shades of Gray: Oregon Gulls
OWLtober: Owls of Oregon
Bats Around Portland
Birding Day: From Seabirds to Songbirds, a Day in Newport
Celebrate OWLtober: Watercolor Painting In-Person with Ronna: The Snowy Owl
Birding Day: Gulls on the Coast
Real Bird Food
Intermediate Birding by Ear: Winter Migrants
Field Trip: Birding by Ear – Winter Migrants at Oaks Bottom
Forest Therapy at Bird Alliance of Oregon Wildlife Sanctuary
Threatened and Endangered Animals in Oregon
Birding with Kindness
Botany for Birders: Winter Tree ID
Field Trip: Botany for Birders – Winter ID at Whitaker Ponds
Watercolor Painting In-Person with Ronna: The Wild Turkey
Birding Day: Upstream on the Columbia River
Observation Point: Birding at the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
Four Seasons of Birding
Bird Journals: Getting that Shape, Angle, and Pose! with Jude Siegel
PNW Coastal Birds in Winter
Bird Alliance of Oregon Birding Day: Celebrate the New Year in Washington County
Beginning Birding and Sauvie Island Exploration (Saturdays: Feb, Mar, Apr)
Beginning Birding and Sauvie Island Exploration (Sundays: Feb, Mar, Apr)
Bird Alliance of Oregon Birding Day: Finley National Wildlife Refuge
Pacific Northwest Trip: Skagit Valley Birding
Pacific Northwest Trip: Newport to Florence
Bird Alliance of Oregon Birding Day: Wasco Splendor
