Taxidermied birds, bird nests, bird eggs, and other items drawn from LCAS’s collection are part of a new display at the Eugene Public Library. To see it, walk into the children’s area from now until the end of August. Thanks…
Long-time Lane County birder Barbara Combs passed away on April 21, 2023, at the age of 75. Barb was originally from New Jersey and came to Oregon in 1972 to get her PhD in psychology at the UO. She was active…
At New Zone Gallery, “Art in Birds” is a project of the McKenzie River Trust on Green Island, where the Willamette and the McKenzie Rivers meet. This collection of artistically painted bird nest boxes will be exhibited at the New…
A History of Oregon Ornithology: From Territorial Days to the Rise of Birding Edited by Alan L. Contreras, Vjera E. Thompson, and Nolan M. Clements Published in November of 2022 by the Oregon State University Press, A History of Ornithology…
A coalition of 33 organizations and government agencies have reviewed the data and released the 2022 U.S. State of the Birds report. As expected, much of it is alarming. Over half of bird species are in decline, with three billion…
Migration is among the most astonishing and challenging stages in any bird’s life–a metabolically demanding journey riddled with perils, from hazardous weather and food shortages to human-caused impacts like light pollution. Fully 80% of our terrestrial migrants in North America…
Puembo is a town a few miles outside of Quito and 20 miles away from the airport. I returned from Ecuador in September after recording more than 300 species in 11 days. Ecuador has more species per square mile than…
The LCAS Audubon in the Schools (AITS) group met recently to discuss the potential for AITS school sessions in this school year. Our volunteer team is eager to begin engaging students once again! We want school teachers who are interested…
Sad news. Cape Arago Audubon has reluctantly decided it is time to put the Oregon Shorebird Festival to rest, after 34 successful runs. Once upon a time, we had truly awesome shore birding here in the fall, but that has…
Barb Pope and Rose Britton gave a one-hour presentation at a kids’ day event called “Off the Beaten Path” at the Cottage Grove Library the afternoon of August 4th. Twenty-eight kids, ages ranging from 4 to 11, participated. Barb and…