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Photo: John Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1499459696733-C9WCHDLJLBW3FA7N603B/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Let’s Hear It for the Year-Round Birds Lewis's woodpeckers populations are in steep decline. Photo: Tom Lawler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1499459817591-HWSM52EY5J2WU93HBDIQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Let’s Hear It for the Year-Round Birds Note the little black cap that indicates a Wilson's Warbler. Photo: Tom Lawler https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1499459920828-6K3KPPAFQ2T871EU2RGQ/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Let’s Hear It for the Year-Round Birds Osprey eat almost nothing but small fish. Photo: Chuck Gates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1499459969560-CRX2FJJU85E7V1VDLLV8/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Let’s Hear It for the Year-Round Birds Canyon wrens are hard to see, but their song is unmistakable. Photo: John Williams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1499460093952-Z2FF7AVKR3K4LFAY4RFC/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Let’s Hear It for the Year-Round Birds That tough beak is just right for tearing into whitebark pine cones. Photo: Mark Lundberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1499468175913-MCSORK2ON6GJYDUUM9DW/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Let’s Hear It for the Year-Round Birds Anna's hummingbirds are the only species that sometimes over-winter in Central Oregon. Photo: Kris Kristovich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1499468275367-5GTSOQKZ215Y31M8WW36/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Let’s Hear It for the Year-Round Birds Mourning doves are native, and may be getting pushed out by the larger Eurasian collared doves. 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Photo by Ron Halvorson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1491351014226-NKG7PSQ8N7GJJOLGEGRT/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - First Flowers of Spring in Central Oregon A prairie star at Chimney Rock. Photo by Ron Halvorson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1491351547734-SYPWZ0E6CNRVOZAX5ZVC/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - First Flowers of Spring in Central Oregon Blue-eyed Mary. Photo by Ron Halvorson https://natureofbooks.com/blog-posts/2017/2/28/all-hail-the-queens monthly 0.5 2025-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1488324756688-6THWRBVAQFSQ4IXAUFZ8/Bumble+Rich.jpg Blog Posts - All Hail the Queens A black-tailed bumblebee. Photo: Rich Hatfield https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1488324905543-QS2KEJO16WDOBF54LZEY/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - All Hail the Queens Another hungry bumblebee. 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Photo by @brucejackson.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1485899748865-8LF2OFOYLCYQDXK3LUU6/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - Test Your Nature Know-How https://natureofbooks.com/blog-posts/2016/12/28/9-nature-books-for-the-new-year monthly 0.5 2016-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1482980810345-ZEN3RC5SHY6RIAYC9YXB/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - 9 Nature Books for the New Year A regal male quail. Photo by Kim Elton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1482981069805-TELYCTGZFXIC93RIASMP/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - 9 Nature Books for the New Year A cottontail not unlike those in Watership Down. Photo by Susan Berger https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5726c827d51cd4d1168b4b76/1482980953822-IWCVY6KD57XTNJA0TVH1/image-asset.jpeg Blog Posts - 9 Nature Books for the New Year A bumblebee native to Central Oregon. 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