Pacific NW Birder

Nesting cormorants--upper left Double-crested; lower right Brandt's. Photographed at Newport, Oregon on July 21, 2012 by Greg Gillson...

Scripps's Murrelet. 2007 off Newport, Oregon by Greg Gillson. The American Ornithologists' Union this month split Xantus's M...

Barn Owl, Hillsboro, Oregon, 22 October 2009 by Greg Gillson.   The 13 categories of North American birds listed in the Field-friendly b...

 Hot and dry. That is August in the Pacific Northwest. Thus, birding in late summer is often concentrated around finding water where birds c...

This spring and summer there have been several scattered reports of Wrentits in NW Oregon outside their historic range. Could the sighti...