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Find a Band

Written by KBO on . Posted in Information & Handouts.

If you find a dead bird with a metal band, color-bands, or any other marker or device attached, please report your finding at the Bird Banding Laboratory website.

Talks & Walks

Written by KBO on . Posted in Community Education.

KBO’s popular Talk & Walk classes are core to our Community Education programming. These two-part classes include an evening presentation followed by a field trip. Birding experts, conservation professionals, authors, and artists donate their time as instructors and field trip leaders.

Educator Kits

Written by KBO on . Posted in K-12 Education.

Our Educator’s Kits contain organized packages of lesson plans designed specifically for birds and habitats in the Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion. The Kits provide place-based, science, and natural resources lesson plans to […]

Banding

Written by KBO on . Posted in Scientific Methods.

It has been said that bird banding is at once both a delicate art and precise science. Bird banding is a method of bird monitoring to track bird populations and demographic trends (characteristics of the population) over time.

Internships

Written by KBO on . Posted in Education.

Klamath Bird Observatory offers a variety of internships. Field-based interns work on various monitoring and research projects and gain skills in bird identification (by sight and sound), field biology and natural history, orienteering, survey methodology and data collection, and data entry.

Rivers and Riparian – Restoration Projects

Written by KBO on . Posted in Conservation Science Projects.

Riparian (streamside) vegetation provides habitat for breeding, migrating, and overwintering birds and is also critical to the quality of the in-stream habitat on which salmon fisheries and other aquatic species depend. In the western United States, riparian zones make up less than 0.5% of the total land area.

Oak Habitat Conservation Projects

Written by KBO on . Posted in Conservation Science Projects.

KBO is involved in oak habitat conservation projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. Oaks in the PNW are facing many threats, including invasive species, conifer encroachment, the lack of fire on the landscape, and human impact. These oak woodlands provide crucial habitats for many of our most at-risk western forest birds, including species like Lewis’s Woodpecker.