Wednesday Wakeup

Join local Audubon members Susan Ballinger and Jane Zanol for a short walk along a quiet paved road to overlook a shrubby creek corridor where dozens of colorful neotropical migrant birds arrive to nest. We will meet at the intersection of Number 2 Canyon and Skyline Drive and car caravan one mile and then walk. This walk is especially designed for new birders and loaner binoculars will be provided. Suitable for all ages. We will walk on a paved level […]

Bird Fest Recon at Cashmere Canyons

Event hosted by Chelan Douglas Land Trust Join Joe Ververka CDLT's Trails Field Coordinator, Annette Jouard, and John Taylor for a recon field trip through fields and forests of a private ranch near Cashmere. Expect to see birds of grassland, shrub-steppe, forestry, and spectacular fields of wildflowers. From wide-open wildflower-filled hillsides to forested peaks and views of the Enchantments, this outing will explore many types of bird habitat on one of the newest trail systems in our area. To register […]

WRI Beginner Bird Walk

This event is hosted by the Wenatchee River Institute Get to know the birds of the Wenatchee River Institute campus with WRI Field Educator Tucker Jonas. This walk will be less than one mile at a slow pace: trails are gravel with two short inclines. We'll look for resident nuthatches and woodpeckers, as well as migrants such as flycatchers and warblers. Loaner binoculars available. Meet outside the WRI River Haus. No registration required. This event is FREE.

Bird Collection Open House with Dr. Dan Stephens

This event is free. Dr. Dan Stephens invites you to join him in viewing the bird skin collection he has built and curated over the past 30 years. The collection currently contains 480 specimens, including 160 species of birds from the American coot to the Western screech owl. More than 200 community members, ornithologists, students, colleagues, and friends have contributed their time to collect, prepare, and maintain the bird skins. Through their cooperative effort, Dr. Dan has created a valuable […]

Grizzly Bears: Guardians of the Wilderness (Online)

This event is hosted by the North Cascades Institute Cost: $10 Grizzly bears, one of North America’s most iconic wildlife species, once roamed across half the continent. Today, their range and numbers are much diminished. They are gone from 25 percent of their former territory in Canada and 94 percent in the Lower 48 states. And they are no longer found at all in the southern part of their original range, which once extended all the way to central Mexico. […]

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