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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…

15th Annual Eagle Watch event slated for Jan. 25
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15th Annual Eagle Watch event slated for Jan. 25

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THE GORGE — On Christmas Eve, President Biden signed a bill officially designating the bald eagle as the U.S.’s national bird. Already considered the national symbol, the species had never received this official designation.

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Wings on the River: The squirrel’s word for “hawk”

  • By Flora Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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I can’t remember the first time I understood the high clear “SQUEAK!” which means “FLYING PREDATOR!” in ground squirrel language, but I will never forget the day it alerted me to two Bald Eagles flapping and quarreling over a piece of meat, low in the cloudy sky over my home in White Oak forest.