Don and Jane Veltkamp describe their Birds of Prey Northwest as a place of “refuge, healing and education” for injured and recovering raptors as they prepare them to return to the wild. Now, the ...
Sure, birds can be annoying. On Portland’s Sauvie Island now, snow geese unnervingly dominate the sky like a Hitchcock horror film, and aptly named cackling geese create such an unrelentingly racket ...
For many North Americans, bird watching is among the most popular of hobbies, right up there with gardening. The covid lockdown period increased our interest in both activities, and that interest is ...
California condors are nesting in the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years, a direct result of a reintroduction ...
GRAVETTE -- Lynn Sciumbato's home, from a distance, can easily be confused with any other rural Benton County property. After a 1,000-foot trip down her driveway, the first thing someone sees is ...
North American bird populations are shrinking and, in many places, the rate of their decline is accelerating, likely due to warming temperatures and intensive agriculture, a new study in the journal ...
Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren’t just growing – they are accelerating in places with intensive human activity, particularly where agriculture ...