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Grant Helps Expand Las Programas at Seward Park

The REI Foundation awarded the Seward Park Environmental and Audubon Center a one-year grant to broaden the center’s Latino-focused nature programs. Read more here.

Read the Seattle Times’ coverage here.

Folks Follow Birding Trail to Walla Walla

A flock of birders landed in this southeastern city and surrounding habitat (which includes wineries) - and was captured by reporter Don Davis of the Union Bulletin. See story here.

Bluebirds "Come Home" to the San Juans

Western Bluebirds are returning - via ferry - to oak prairie woodland of San Juan Island, thanks to a joint project of the Audubon local chapter, students, other conservation groups, and Fort Lewis's fish and wildlife managers. Read more here.

Annual Report Documents 2008 Impacts

The annual report issue of Impact, Audubon Washington’s quarterly newsletter, is hot off the press. Read results here.

New State of the Birds Report Shows Climate Change Impacts

Audubon Washington has just published its summary State of the Birds report outlining the effects of climate change on birds in our state’s Important Bird Areas, adapted from the longer report completed in February. National Audubon scientists analyzed forty years of avian data to show how changes on the landscape are causing bird populations shifts across the country; see the full national report here.

Birding Trail Expands to Wine Country

The fifth and newest route of the Great Washington State Birding Trail, the Sun and Sage Loop, premieres in Olympia. See photo and read more here.

Featured Bird!

Northern Harrier
Gliding low over fields, meadows, marshes and shrub-steppe, this medium-sized raptor dives to flush its prey of small mammals. It’s especially fond of voles. The harrier’s distinctive white rump patch makes identification easy from a distance. Close up, its owl-like face is distinctive. Listen and learn more on BirdNote.

Homepage Banner Photo Credits: Yellow-headed Blackbird, Great Blue Heron, Hooded Mergansers, Snow Geese and Mt. Rainier, jefflarsen.com; 3-photo collage, Bob Boekelheide, Carl Cook. “List Our Birds” Marbled Godwit, jefflarsen.com.