From Our Blog:
  • Christmas Bird Count 2025 (CBC) Overview
    Christmas Bird Count 2025 (CBC) Overview

    Once again it is time to organize the annual Christmas Bird Count. This event gives all of us the opportunity to share birding with others.

    If you are a novice, it provides a wonderful opportunity to learn from the more experienced birders. This citizen science program is in its 126th year and...

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  • Winter 2025 Whistler is available
    Winter 2025 Whistler is available

    The Winter 2025 Whistler is available now.

    Read more of its content: 

    • Flocking Together - Presidents Message
    • WHAS 50th Anniversary Celebration
    • 2025 Christmas Bird Counts Info
    • Membership Form
    • NW Birding Events
    • Cool Adaptations of Pacific Northwest Winter Ducks
    • Breeding Bird Survey
    • Conservation
      • ...
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  • Cowlitz County Bird List - 2025 September Update
    Cowlitz County Bird List - 2025 September Update
    Breeding Parasitic jaeger (light morph) - Image courtesy of Andreas Trepte/Wikimedia

    By Russ Koppendrayer

    Attached is the Cowlitz Year List updated through the end of September. This report is my first ever to include three months. We experienced a fairly slow July and August when we added four...

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Our next Events

Dec 20;
Leadbetter CBC
Dec 28;
Cowlitz Columbia CBC
Dec 29;
Wahkiakum CBC
Mar 20;
WHAS Board Election
Willapa Hills Audubon has set up an email list to facilitate occasional communications with member and supporter to announce or send reminders about programs, field trips and mission-related actions.
  • Fall 2025 Whistler is available
    Fall 2025 Whistler is available

    The Fall 2025 Whistler is available now.

    Read more of its content: 

    • Happy Birthday! WHAS celebrates 50th years
    • Membership Form
    • NW Birding Events
    • Photo Impression from Recent WHAS Events
    • Wilson’s Warbler: Charismatic Flirt
    • Vaux's Swifts Viewing in Rainier, Ore
    • WHAS History is a Legacy of Civic
      • ...
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  • See the Fall Migration of Vaux's Swifts in Rainier Ore
    See the Fall Migration of Vaux's Swifts in Rainier Ore

    Vaux's Swifts are starting to roost in the Riverside Community Church chimney in Rainier. See a live view into the chimney here (https://vauxhappeningor.click2stream.com/), best view the camera around sunset or sunrise.

    Folks wishing to check out this phenomenon for themselves will have the best...

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  • Cowlitz County Bird List - 2025 June Update
    Cowlitz County Bird List - 2025 June Update
    White-tailed Kite - Image courtesy of wikimedia

    By Russ Koppendrayer

    We've reached the midpoint of 2025 and now have seen wintering, migrating and breeding birds as well as the resident species. At 190 species on our list it is a fine start with six months to find some species that are regular...

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