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Black Belt Birding Festival: A Journalist’s Reflections

Black Belt Birding Festival: A Journalist’s Reflections

In August 2021, journalist Adilia Watson traveled from Seattle to Greensboro, Alabama to attend the inaugural Black Belt Birding Festival. The festival is part of Alabama Audubon’s Black Belt Birding Initiative that works to bring the economic and environmental...
September Cooper’s Hawk Release

September Cooper’s Hawk Release

by Elizabeth Cameron Working with the Seattle Bird Collision Monitors, I spend part of my Thursdays looking for injured or dead birds around building perimeters. This may sound morbid, but the data we’re gathering is helping conservationists understand and...
Likely Seattle Voters Speak for the Trees

Likely Seattle Voters Speak for the Trees

Western Screech-Owl /Ken Shults / Audubon Photography Awards New poll shows strong support for increased tree protection, planting, and funding Results from a new poll show strong support for protecting and enhancing Seattle’s urban forest. In July 2021, the Northwest...
A New Look for The Nature Shop Windows

A New Look for The Nature Shop Windows

Angelina Villalobos standing outside The Nature Shop windows with her collision deterrent artwork now installed. Bird-safe and Beautiful The Nature Shop windows are sporting a new look these days. As part of our work for Bird-safe Cities we commissioned a design by...
Mortality Event at West Seattle Caspian Tern Colony

Mortality Event at West Seattle Caspian Tern Colony

Caspian Tern / Kersti Muul Seattle Audubon and Audubon Washington are saddened to report on a mortality event at a West Seattle Caspian Tern colony. On June 28, 2021, many chicks were observed to have perished on the rooftop or were killed or injured after jumping to...
Celebrating and Conserving Migratory Birds

Celebrating and Conserving Migratory Birds

Rufous Hummingbird / Mick Thompson / Eastside Audubon May 8, 2021 is World Migratory Bird Day in the Americas. As someone whose movements more closely approximate those of a barnacle than a barn swallow, I am mystified by migratory birds. How do such small,...