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Neighborhood Bird Project Report Species Highlight #3: Killdeer

Neighborhood Bird Project Report Species Highlight #3: Killdeer

Killdeer | Paul Kusmin | Audubon Photography Awards  This article is based on our report Fewer and Fewer, which pulls from findings of the Neighborhood Bird Project.  Though technically a shorebird, Killdeer frequent heavily human-modified areas, such as lawns, gravel...
Working Towards an IDEAL CBC 2025 Update

Working Towards an IDEAL CBC 2025 Update

CBC | Toby Ross  by Hanae Bettencourt, Community Engagement Manager Last year, we embarked on an exciting journey to make the annual Christmas Bird Count, or CBC, more accessible to all birders in our community. With the support from National Audubon and a team of...
Working Towards an IDEAL CBC 

Working Towards an IDEAL CBC 

Volunteers participating in the Seattle Christmas Bird Count | Photo by Doug Plummer  by Hanae Bettencourt, Community Engagement Manager Early this year, a message dropped into my inbox with the subject line, “Opportunity to make Christmas Bird Counts more...