Crucial to the integrity of Pacific Northwest ecosystems, they’re expert recyclers of ... Mollusks are also important prey for a wide variety of animals, from mammals to birds to snakes to fish, and ...

We learn more about white pelican colonies in the Pacific Northwest and how climate change may factor into the health of these birds from James Lawonn, an avian biologist at the Oregon Department ...

The bird flu virus that killed 20 big cats in Washington and a pet cat in Oregon and is circulating among cows, poultry and wild birds isn't yet a threat to the general public, experts say.

Migration and winter: most birds breeding in the Southwest winter in Mexico, and most breeding in the Pacific Northwest move south into California in winter. Vagrant: casual across southern Canada ...

Around 62,000 common murres washed up on the coast of the Pacific Ocean but up to a million birds are thought to have died. The scientists said that warmer sea waters, known as the "blob", led to ...

The heron surely represents patience. Poised like sculpture, wading in water — both freshwater and coastal — scanning for small fish, the great blue heron stands 4 foot tall on long skinny legs which ...

It’s a bird found in Alaska and the Arctic Circle, through the Pacific Northwest and down into Monterey, California.

Evidence is mounting that parks and other protected areas can accomplish exactly that for birds, in national parks of the Pacific Northwest and California’s Sierra Nevada where I study birds ...