Northwest Nature Notes

The Snowy Owls ( Bubo scandiacus ) that came down to Washington this winter, which I have written about before, finally contributed some pe...

Every year in April and May the Pacific Northwest experiences a mad rush of thousands and thousands of shorebirds—sandpipers and plovers—on ...

Every spring, about the beginning of April, flocks of shorebirds begin their annual migration up the Pacific coast on their way to Alaska a...

Hello, all. This is the first post from the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, US...