From Our Blog:
  • Message from our new Field Trip Coordinator David Slater
    Message from our new Field Trip Coordinator David Slater
    Cedar Waxwing - Image: Russ Koppendrayer

    Hello everyone,

    I’m pleased to introduce myself as the new Field Trips Coordinator for our Audubon chapter. I’m looking forward to helping create fun, educational and inclusive birding experiences.

    Birding is most rewarding to me as a collaborative...

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  • Spring 2026 Willapa Whistler is available
    Spring 2026 Willapa Whistler is available

    The Spring 2026 Willapa Whistler is available now.

    Read more of its content: 

    • Invitation to the Annual Meeting, Banquet, and Program
    • 2025 Christmas Bird Counts Results
    • Membership Form
    • NW Birding Events
    • A Message to our national members
    • Call for Earth Day volunteers
    • Tiny Dynamos: The Clever
      • ...
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  • Cowlitz County Bird List - 2026 January Update
    Cowlitz County Bird List - 2026 January Update
    Yellow-headed Blackbird Scoter - Image courtesy of wikimedia

    By Russ Koppendrayer

    While we didn't find any super rarities in the first month of 2026, we did come across some very interesting birds. A White-winged Scoter at the Woodland Bottoms and a couple Yellow-headed Blackbirds on the Kalama...

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Our next Events

Apr 10;
Old Fort Stevens Bird Walk
Apr 17;
Trestle Bay Birding
Apr 24;
Coffenbury Lake Bird Walk
Apr 25;
Oysterville West Beach Access and Leadbetter Point State Park
May 02;
Legs, Bills and Behavior - Cracking the Shorebird Code
May 22;
Julia Butler Refuge
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.
  • Cowlitz County Bird List - 2025 Final Update
    Cowlitz County Bird List - 2025 Final Update
    Black Scoter - Image courtesy of Terry Anderson

    By Russ Koppendrayer

    We had a productive last three months of 2025. In addition to picking up a few of our missing annual species, we managed to locate White-winged Scoter, Eared Grebe and Swamp Sparrow, all of which are less than annual in Cowlitz...

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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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