Our National Parks are beautiful places that provide habitat for a host of plants and animals. But they are too few and too small to provide enough resources for biodiversity to thrive. The solution: the Homegrown National Parks movement. Wildlife…
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…
“Rewilding the American West,” an article published in the August 2022 journal Bioscience, argues that to conserve ecological function, we must remove problematic invasive species and work to conserve important native species. The authors, a group of twenty prominent scientists,…
Most of us live in urban or suburban areas where we are treated to the sights and sounds of the birds that share our space. Several researchers have explored the effects of urbanization on birds. Findings differ depending on context,…
At Lane County Audubon Society, we love to see our community working together to make a better place for birds, people, and other biological beings. We believe strongly in supporting wildlife while connecting people to nature. One way to achieve…
Many years ago, when we were renting a house in a town outside of Seattle, some neighborhood kids came over to ask if they could mow our lawn. They let on that their parents had put them up to it…
As I write this, it is difficult to look away from news that conveys the horrors of war, which are immediate, malevolent, and devastating. The immediacy of this may have overshadowed another item in this month’s news—the release of the…
Lake Abert, a remote saltwater lake in Oregon’s high desert, is shrinking. In the last decade, its water volume has dropped more than 90 percent. Oregon’s only saline lake, it has gone dry twice in the last eight years: in…
I can’t imagine hummingbirds not bringing a smile to your face! I hope all of you get a chance to watch them as they flit, dive, fly sideways, hover, and engage in aerial dogfights. Hummingbirds are beautiful, small, fast, tough,…