by Josh Morris | Aug 16, 2023 | Blog, Conservation, Science
Dark-eyed Junco (photo by Boe Baty ) Are you looking for a volunteer opportunity to give back to birds? Collisions with windows kill thousands of birds each year in Seattle. Birds need your help to stop these unnecessary deaths. Join the Seattle Bird Collision...
by birdsconnectsea | Aug 8, 2023 | Blog, Conservation, Equity & Justice
The scene in front of the culturally modified tree in the Wedgwood neighborhood of Seattle (photo by Glenn Nelson) The following was sent on Tuesday, August 8, 2023, via email to bruce.harrell@seattle.gov: Dear Mayor Harrell: Birds Connect Seattle is an environmental...
by katelseattleaudubonorg | May 31, 2023 | Conservation
Anna’s Humminbird (Kathryn Harlan-Gran/Audubon Photography Awards) Rufous Hummingbirds make astounding migratory journeys. Each year, over the course of about six weeks, these birds migrate from southern Mexico to southeast Alaska—averaging more than 70 miles...
by birdsconnectseattle | May 22, 2023 | Blog, Conservation
Great Blue Herons with Nesting Material, Photo by Sharon Wada by Sharon Wada Over the decades, conservation-minded citizens such as the McIlraith family have donated properties to our organization. In 1989, they gave us a six-acre tract in the Swamp Creek wetlands of...
by Josh Morris | May 11, 2023 | Blog, Conservation, Science
A raft of American Coots | Linda Dyer Kennedy | Audubon Photography Awards Do you love birds and science? We do, too. Let’s work together. We invite you to consider joining our Science Committee. You’ll serve alongside an inspiring group of others who to...
by birdsconnectseattle | Apr 26, 2023 | Blog, Conservation
Glaucous-Winged Gull (drawing by Emilio Gonzalez) by Sydney Rometsch Our new name, Birds Connect Seattle, represents the ways that birds connect all of us. Birds connect us to our families, they connect our communities by bringing diverse groups together, and they...
