The Rainier Audubon CBC will be running as normal. Field leaders will be taking teams out in the field. We will also have the Backyard Bird Count for those in the count circle who want to bird at home. And we will be doing an in person potluck and tally celebration. Regarding Covid-19, we will be following the State, King County and National Audubon mandates.
I have been going to Malheur NWR for about 15 years now and still think it has the best birding in the Pacific Northwest.
Thirty years ago, Cooper’s Hawks began colonizing urban and suburban landscapes throughout the US, developing a tolerance for living in proximity to humans.
Madagascar is the world’s fourth-largest island, situated off East Africa in the Indian Ocean. Isolated since it drifted away from India 88 million years ago, a very large percentage of its plants and animals are endemic, occurring nowhere else—95% of reptiles, 92% of mammals, 89% of plants, and 41% of birds. Dennis Paulson spent 18 days there in January 2016 and will share some of his wonderful experiences.
Perhaps you’re one of those who consider science and humor to belong in two separate camps which, due to language differences, are committed to never speaking to each other. But cartoonist Gary Larson went a long way in disproving that myth. Through his rather warped sense of humor he allowed us not only to appreciate the contributions of science but also enabled us to better understand ourselves by bringing down our defenses so we could laugh at ourselves as seen through the eyes of cows, insects, dragons, and yes, even birds.
Did you know that the Nisqually River, originating on the slopes of Mount Rainier and emptying into Puget Sound, is a national model for watershed preservation and protection? Climb aboard the virtual charter bus and join Jeff Antonelis-Lapp, Emeritus Faculty at The Evergreen State College, for A Virtual Field Trip in the Nisqually Watershed, an image-rich talk from Tahoma and Its People, his natural history of Mount Rainier National Park.
