Expand the Conversation
There are many ways to be involved in bird and habitat conservation. If you want to volunteer, attend a conference or just learn more, check out the opportunities below.
Conferences and Meetings
February 24-27, 2025 / Tucson, AZ
Now accepting abstracts through August 25, 2024
March 14th, 2025 / Cascadia College, Bothell, WA
April 3-4, 2025 / Raleigh, NC
April 14-17, 2025 / Greater Tacoma Convention Center (Tacoma, WA)
April 14th-16th / Boise, Idaho
April 8-10, 2025 / Stevenson, WA
Early Bird Registration is Now Open
April 22-24, 2025 / Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, CO
April 29–May 1, 2025 / Virtual
May 5 - 7, 2025 / Vancouver, British Columbia
May 12 - 15, 2025 / Riverton, Wyoming
June 5–8 / Yakima Convention & Event Center, Yakima, Washington
November 5-7, 2025 / Skamania Lodge, WA
December 2- 6, 2025 / New Orleans, LA
Trainings, Webinars & Workshops
Dates: January 17, January 31, February 14, 2025
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 EST
Where: Zoom
This workshop will guide you through the CBSM framework and help you develop a tailored campaign to address disturbance challenges at your site related to dog disturbance and disturbance by beach walkers. Participants will receive templates and resources to implement and evaluate a unique behavior-change campaign.
The Network for Landscape Conservation is holding this webinar February 20, 2025 at 10 AM PST.
Oregon State University is hosting a series of webinars on Fire Ecology of Oregon Forests
Feb 13, 2025. Fire ecology of forest and range soils.
Feb 20, 2025. Fire ecology: western Cascades and Coast Range.
Feb 27, 2025. Fire ecology: Oregon's dry forests.
Mar 6, 2025. Fire ecology: SW Oregon.
Mar 13, 2025. Fire ecology: Eastside moist, subalpine, alpine forests.
Mar 20, 2025. Fire ecology: sagebrush ecosystems.
Mar 27, 2025. Fire ecology: oak savannah and woodlands.
Community Science & Bird Celebrations
See regional or larger celebrations and community science opportunities here, as well as links to other sites that compile events and opportunities. Find more ways to participate in your local area by reaching out to your state or local Audubon chapter, or state/federal fish and wildlife agencies. Or contact us and we will help connect you!
Occurs every 3rd weekend in May.
Contribute to this large nest monitoring project
Help researchers learn about boreal wetland priority species in this May-June volunteer program.
The ISS is a longstanding shorebird survey that can always use volunteers.
Report on birds and amphibians in this new program.
You can join in for all or part of the season, in the U.S. or Canada.
Help survey birds on the coast of British Columbia.
Help with Brown Pelicans, Snowy Plovers, Black Oystercatchers or some of their Coastal Community or Portland-Metro area projects.
Scientists want to know if you see banded Lesser Yellowlegs.
The Pueo Project could use more citizen scientists to help locate and learn more about the Pueo, or Hawaiian Short-eared Owl.
eBird Northwest keeps an ongoing list of Northwest U.S. community science opportunities.
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