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The Kingfisher newsletter is published two times a year, with summer/fall and winter/spring issues. You can receive a hard copy to read or you can find the current newsletter here.

CURRENT NEWSLETTER

Winter 2023/Spring 2024

We continue to provide you with our past newsletters in electronic PDF format. Find all of our past newsletters below and click on the Volume, Issue number to access the PDF.

  • Volume 18, Issue 1

    • Marine Conservation Area Success!

    • Osprey Awareness Initiative Underway

    • Book Review: What it’s Like to Be a Bird

    • Calendar of Events

    • Season of the Swallow

  • Volume 17, Issue 2

    • Winter is for Ducks!

    • Conservation Action Team Report

    • Book Review: Best Little Book of Birds: Oregon Coast

    • Calendar of Events

    • Osprey Awareness Initiative: A Call for Volunteers!

  • Volume 17, Issue 1

    • Our Osprey Neighbors

    • Introducing North America’s Most Attractive Waterfowl

    • Calendar of Events

    • Conservation Action Team Report

    • Here Come the Puffins!

  • Volume 16, Issue 2

    • Christmas Bird Count Returns

    • Calendar of Events

    • Book Review: Neighborhood Birding 101

    • Conservation Action Committee Report

  • Volume 16, Issue 1

    • August is Marine Reserve Awareness Month (feature)

    • Monitoring on the Coast: A Snowy Plover Success Story

    • Calling all Birdwalkers

    • Oregon Marine Reserves (insert)

    • Calendar of Events

    • Conservation Priorities in Lincoln and Tillamook Counties

  • Volume 15, Issue 2

    • The Impacts and Benefits of Fire Among Birds (feature)

    • New Signage at the Alder Island Nature Trail

    • H is for Hawk (book review)

    • The Oregon Coast Rocks (insert)

    • Calendar of Events

    • Conservation Priorities in Lincoln and Tillamook Counties

  • Volume 15, Issue 1

    • Red-breasted Sapsucker

    • Osprey on the Central Oregon Coast

    • Crowley Creek Nest Box Cleanup

    • Looking Out for Cape Lookout

    • Foulweather: Not a Foul View

    • Calendar of Events

    • Sonnet for the Wake-Up Crow (guest poem and illlustration)

    • Report from Your Conservation Action Committee

  • Volume 14, Issue 2

    • Federal Regulatory Changes Threaten Birds

    • Calendar of Events

    • Eelgrass is Essential to Ocean Health

    • On the Rocks with Black Oystercatchers

    • Environmental Education and Field Trips are Elementary!

    • Bartholomew Quill - book review

    • House Sparrow - book review

    • Conservation Priorities in Lincoln and Tillamook Counties

  • Volume 14, Issue 1

    • ASLC in the Classroom: Snowy Plover project with St. James Santiago School

    • Crowley Creek Swallow Box project with CareerTech Lincoln City

    • Report from ASLC Conservation Action Committee

    • What, Me Lobby? editorial by Joseph Youren

    • Driftwood Library Book review: "Crow Not Crow" authors Yolen and Stemple

    • World Migratory Bird Day Festival Wrap-Up (insert)

    • ASLC 2019 Annual Meeting notice

    • Calendar of Summer and Fall Events

  • Volume 13, Issue 2

    • St. James Santiago School Students Completing Migratory Bird Day Mural

    • ASLC in the Classroom: “Our Neighbors the Osprey” with Oceanlake Elementary School Kindergarten Classes

    • What kind of Oregon coast do you want to leave your children and grandchildren?

    • Audubon Society of Lincoln City (ASLC) 2018 Christmas Bird Count

    • Calendar of Winter and Spring Events

  • Volume 13, Issue 1

    • Dollar General Development Project proposed for the Cascade Head Scenic Research Area

    • "Miriam's Story," Raising Money For "Hurt Birdies"

    • World Migratory Bird Day Festival Wrap-Up

    • Calendar of Summer and Fall Events

    • Join ASLC Today!

  • Volume 12, Issue 2

    • Choosing a Birding Field Guide

    • "Birding Basics" classes, Jan 23 - Feb 1

    • "Birding Without Borders" Book Review

    • Calendar of Winter and Spring Events

    • Patch Birding

    • Winter Raptor Surveys

    • Join ASLC Today!

  • Volume 12, Issue 1

    • Birding with Noah Strycker

    • Calendar of Summer and Fall Events

    • Notice of 2017 ASLC Annual Meeting

    • Update on OAC Conservation Goals

    • Birding during the Total Solar Eclipse

    • Join ASLC today!

    • Donating to ASLC through Amazon Smile Purchases

  • Volume 11, Issue 2

    • Conservation Issues Facing Oregon and the ASLC

    • "Basic Birding" classes, Feb 7-16

    • A Message from ASLC member, Debbie Bergeron

    • Varied Thrush

    • Birding Lincoln City's Spring Lake Open Space

    • Calendar of Events

    • Membership 2016 and Beyond

  • Volume 11, Issue 1

    • It's a Team Effort

    • Explore for Birds in Lincoln City Open Spaces with Audubon

    • In Focus: Identifying Birds

    • New ASLC Board Member

    • Outdoor School for All

    • 2016 ASLC Annual Meeting Notice

    • Calendar of Events

    • Join ASLC Today!

    • What are Those Big Birds in My Seed Feeder?

  • Volume 10, Issue 2

    • Nora Sherwood

    • ASLC Photography Display at Blackfish Café

    • Basic Birding Classes at OR Coast Community College, Lincoln City

    • Barnacle Geese

    • Little Brown Bird in the Bushes

    • Calendar of Events January-July

    • Scouts Join ASLC in Building Bird Houses

  • Volume 10, Issue 1

    • Natalie Joy's Golden Opportunity

    • Migratory Bird Counts

    • Walking Lincoln City's Wide Open Spaces

    • 2015 ASLC Annual Meeting Notice

    • Calendar of Events July-January 2016

    • Wild About Birds

    • Birds in My Backyard

  • Volume 9, Issue 2

    • ASLC 10th Anniversary Timeline

    • Mark Elliott - ASLC Field Trip Leader

    • Birding Basics for Beginners

    • Thousands of Cassin’s Auklets Found Dead on West Coast Beaches

    • Calendar of Events, Jan-Aug

    • Bird Show 2015

    • Great Backyard Bird Count 2015

    • ASLC Christmas Bird Count Results

  • Volume 9, Issue 1

    • For the Love of Learning and Birds

    • Cascade Head: Head out, See Birds, and Learn About the Marine Reserve

    • Comment Gallery from Tillamook's East Elementary 5th Grade Classes

    • Beachcombers or Birders Wanted

    • Meet the New Board Members

    • What are the Bird Ladies Reading?

    • Calendar of Events

  • Volume 8, Issue 2

    • Results of Christmas Bird Count 2013

    • Dick Demarest - A True Guide

    • Anna's Hummingbird - Our Fragile, Coastal Resident

    • Birding Basics for Beginners

    • Calendar of Events

    • 17th Annual Great Backyard Bird Count

  • Volume 8, Issue 1

    • Fishy Business to Audubon

    • Buffleheads

    • Calendar of Events

    • Birds for the Brain

    • "Oregon Wild" weekend

    • Beachcombers or Birders Wanted

  • Volume 7, Issue 2

    • Christmas Bird Count 2013

    • Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC)

    • Bird Photography by ASLC Members

    • Birding Basics for Beginners

    • Getting Down to Birding Basics at Oregon Coast Community College

    • Black Phoebe, A Rare Sight to See in These Parts

    • Bird Photographs and Watchers Wanted

    • Winter Birding Sites

    • Time to Polish Your Birding Skills

  • Volume 7, Issue 1

    • The Salmon River Estuary - A Birder's Paradise Restored

    • Devils Lake Swans

    • Duck Rescue

  • Volume 6, Issue 2

    • Al Rice, Mr. Wood Duck

    • Winter Bird Feeding Tips

    • 17-Year-Old Banded Canada Goose

    • Recap of Elementary School Birding Classes

    • Meet Catherine Pruitt, new ASLC Conservation Chair

  • Volume 6, Issue 1

    • Beauty So Rarely Seen (on Wood Ducks)

    • Tillamook Students Go "Wild About Birds"

    • A Morning Adventure

    • Announcement of Annual Meeting

    • House Cleaning for the Birds

    • A Sad Sight to See

    • Barbara Fix of Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge

    • Citizen Science with COASST

  • Volume 5, Issue 1a

    • Great Back Yard Bird Count

    • Walking is for the Birds

    • America’s Smallest Falcon

    • Steller’s Jay

    • Wildlife Rescue Center of the Northwest

  • Volume 5, Issue 1

    • Coastal Oregon Wild about Birds

    • Fall Fundraiser at Blackfish Café with Jack Doyle photographs

    • Food and Water - Providing Habitat for Backyard Birds

    • Book Review - "Important Bird Areas Americas"

  • Volume 4, Issue 4

    • Rescuing Wildlife

    • The Cornell Lab of Ornithology "CamClickr" Program

    • Book Review: Flyaway

  • Volume 4, Issue 3

    • Exploring Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge by Canoe or Kayak

    • Recap of 2009 Wings & Waves Festival

  • Volume 4, Issue 2

    • Kicking Off the Great Backyard Bird Count

    • Bill to Ban PBDEs

    • Audubon in the Classroom at Siletz Valley School

    • Birds and Climate Change: On the Move

    • A Flock by Any Other Name

    • Is it Harry the Hairy, or Dow the Downy (Woodpecker)?

  • Volume 3, Issue 1

    • Audubon Nature Center Planned for Lincoln City

    • Oregon Shorebird Festival

    • Black-headed Grosbeak

    • Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge

  • Volume 2, Issue 4

    • International Migratory Bird Day

    • Beautiful Fliers (Anna's Hummingbirds)

    • Upcoming Birding Events

    • 2008 Audubon Birdathon

    • Mistnetting for Science

  • Volume 2, Issue 3

    • Great Backyard Bird Count—February 15-18, 2008

    • Watch List—Oregon’s Coastal Birds Imperiled

    • Principles of Birding Ethics

    • 2008 Board of Directors Candidate Biographies

    • Upcoming Birding Events

  • Volume 2, Issue 2

    • Nestucca Bay Wildlife Refuge Open House

    • Great Egret

    • A Healthy Marine Ecosystem, Sustainable Fisheries and Wave Energy -

    How Do They Fit Together?

  • Volume 2, Issue 1

    • State of the Birds

    • Swallows

    • Oregon Coast Birding Trail

    • Audubon Supports Renewable Energy

    • Audubon Leads Adventures in Lincoln City Schools

  • Volume 2, Issue 1

    • International Migratory Bird Day—Birds in a Changing Climate

    • Beautiful Fliers—Anna's Hummingbird

    • Audubon Society of Lincoln City for our 2nd annual Birdathon!

    • Mist Netting for Science

  • Volume 1, Issue 3

    • Christmas Bird Count

    • An Unlikely Visitor—Hoot!

    •The Common Loon

  • Volume 1, Issue 2

    • Breakfast and Birds

    • Snowy Plover

    • Feeding Birds in Fall and Winter Q&A

  • Volume 1, Issue 1

    • Kingfisher Named Official Bird of Lincoln City

    • Audubon Society of Lincoln City Continues to Grow!

    • Osprey Nesting in Siletz Bay

    • Summer Bird Feeding - It’s Not Just for Hummingbirds Anymore!

    • Birding on the Central Oregon Coast