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
May 1-3, 2024 / Spirit Mountain Lodge, Grand Ronde, Oregon
May 2-8, 2024 / Cordova, AK
May 13-16, 2024 / Treasure Island Resort and Casino in Welch, Minnesota.
May 13-16, 2024 / L.V. Eberhard Center at Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
May 16-19, 2024 / Wenatchee River Institute at Barn Beach Reserve, Washington
June 11-13, 2024 / Montréal, Québec
June 23-27, 2024 / Salt Lake City, Utah
August 11-16, 2024 / Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada
June 17-20, 2024 / National Conservation Training Center, Shepherdstown, WV
Sept 9-14, 2024 / Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Sept 9-12, 2024 / Anchorage, Alaska
July 29 - August 1, 2024 / Peoria, Illinois
September 15-19, 2024 / Honolulu, Hawai’i
October 1-5, 2024 / YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado
October 7-10, 2024 / Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
November 11-16, 2024 / Taipei, Taiwan
Trainings, Webinars & Workshops
Join NCLC Executive Director Katie Voelke at the Astoria Co+op at for a special presentation: “Celebrating Coastal Ecology.”
April 23, 2024, 5:30 PDT
May 22, 2024 - 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Join biologist Sam Derrenbacher, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for a walk at North Coast Land Conservancy’s Neacoxie Prairie Habitat Reserve to learn about the multi-agency restoration effort taking place to promote pollinator habitat.
May 31, 2024, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Our five-day introductory course emphasizes understanding the geomorphic and ecological process as a sound basis for planning and designing river restoration. It covers general principles and case studies from a wide range of environments. The course is held at Sagehen Creek Field Station near Lake Tahoe, CA.
August 19 - 23, 2024.
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. The dates for the 22nd annual Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest May 16-19, 2024.
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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