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Wings on the River: How to hate a house sparrow

  • By Flora Martin Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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I quite like House Sparrows, invasive colonizers though they are. They’re friendly: comic relief from a loaded world of human interactions. They come in about fifty shades of brown, the males with rich black bibs.

A troubled family of owls gets rescued
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A troubled family of owls gets rescued

  • By Flora Martin Gibson Columbia Gorge News

THE GORGE — Two little owls fell out of a tree; one got re-nested, but the other encountered a bb gun and some motor oil, and faces rehabilita…

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Wings on the River: The flying flower

  • By Flora Martin Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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One of the birds marked as a “tipping point species” by the 2025 nationwide State of the Birds report is our local resident, the Rufous Hummingbird.

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Wings on the River: The mourning comedian

  • By Flora Martin Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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In angry times like these, we all need a little comic relief. Fortunately, America’s number-one game bird is once again, with comical inefficiency, building nests for the first of its six or so broods in the Western desert, as it has since the Pleistocene.

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April 11 'Wild About Nature' talks falconry

  • By Joan Chantler, for Columbia Gorge News
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WHITE SALMON — The April 11 Wild About Nature talk was "Falconry: Bird Abatement and Captive Breeding by Master Falconer Jimmy Bathke and Appr…

Liberty lays an egg
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Liberty lays an egg

  • By Flora Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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Although she will never hatch a chick, the female bald eagle housed at Columbia Gorge Discovery Center & Museum nests annually with her partner, Ferguson, said Raptor Coordinator Julia Khoury.

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‘Bird Watch Walkabout’ Friday

HOOD RIVER — The History Museum of Hood River County hosts Morgan Olson, raptor educator from the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and Museum, …