Community Science / Bird Counts

If you’re like me, you love watching the birds at your backyard bird feeder on a fall or winter day. Getting to know what kinds...

Kathleen Snyder The 2024 nesting season went very well for our nest boxes over multiple prairies in south Thurston County.  We are almost finished cleaning...

WINTER RAPTOR SURVEY PROJECT NEEDS VOLUNTEERS The East Cascades Audubon Society of Bend, OR is the sponsor for this extensive project which covers 572 routes...

BIRDERS NEEDED! The Puget Sound Seabird Survey is looking for birders in Thurston County to join this established Community Science program. We’d be delighted with...

Things are hopping out on the prairies.  Black Hills Audubon volunteers are monitoring nest boxes on Violet, Glacial Heritage, and Deschutes Prairies.  We have had...

Great Backyard Bird Count Feb 16-19 Every February, for four days, the world comes together to celebrate birds. It’s that time again, time for the...

Climate Watch Two-thirds of North American birds are vulnerable to extinction due to climate change.  Audubon members and others asked how they could help protect...

Raptor Monitoring Route in Centralia Deb Nickerson East Cascades Audubon Society in Oregon sponsors a Raptor Monitoring Program each winter which gathers longitudinal data on...

SatBird: Bird Species Distribution Modeling with Remote Sensing and Citizen Science Data For those of us who enjoy reading scientific papers filled with thorough descriptions...

By Kathleen Snyder As you may know, Western Bluebirds are not the only birds using the nest boxes out at Glacial Heritage and Violet Prairie. ...

Behind the Scenes: Avian Science Committee By Bob Wadsworth Avian science is not a new concept at Black Hills Audubon.  But it’s only recently that...

CHEHALIS POPLAR TREE FARM NEST BOXES On February 23rd, Rachel Hudson, Ken Brown, and Kathleen Snyder went to clean and repair the 15 remaining nest...

By Bill Shelmerdine, Olympia CBC Compiler The Olympia Christmas Bird Count (CBC) was held on Sunday, December 19.  In keeping with the long-standing tradition, that...

2017 Lewis County CBC Results 2018 Lewis County CBC Results 2019 Lewis County CBC Results

Wow. I really mean it…wow. Friday marked the 2nd ever Lewis County CBC and if future years are anything similar to this count then we...

Total number of species was 123 seen on count day, plus 3 more (Long-tailed Duck; Northern Shrike; and White-breasted Nuthatch) seen count week.

By Dalton Spencer I want to thank everyone who participated this year so much for helping out! I would be absolutely worthless without all of...

By Kim Adelson High on my list of “things to love about living in Western Washington” is our great abundance of winter waterfowl. Maybe because...

By Kim Adelson This article is the second installment of my summary of the changes in winter bird populations found in and around Olympia, as...

By Deb Nickerson, Bill Shelmerdine, and Kathleen Synder Thurston County: December 15th dawned dry and cold but lacking inclement weather that makes 8 hours of...

By Joe Zabransky I had recently turned 11 years old when I experienced my first Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) in Bergen County, NJ.  This...

By Bill Shelmerdine, Olympia CBC Coordinator This year’s Olympia Christmas Bird Count (CBC) on Sunday, December 20 was the 116th year for this annual event...