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World Oceans Day 2025

By Mia McPherson|June 8th, 2025|Categories: Cannon Beach, Conservation, Oregon|Tags: beach, Cannon Beach, clouds, Ecola State Park, mountains, ocean, oceans, Pacific Ocean, sea stacks, sky, spring, water, waves|

Today is World Oceans Day 2025. The theme for this year is "Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us"

The State of North American Birds and its Not Good News

By Mia McPherson|July 1st, 2016|Categories: American Oystercatchers, Antelope Island State Park, Birds, Davis County, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Greater Sage-Grouse, Mountain Plovers, Pinellas County, Reddish Egrets, Utah, Wayne County|Tags: American Oystercatcher, Anarhynchus montanus, arid habitat, Centrocercus urophasianus, coast, decline, egrets, Egretta rufescens, extinction, grasslands, Greater Sage-Grouse, Haematopus palliatus, Mountain Plover, oceans, Reddish Egret, sage-grouse, sagebrush steppe, shorebirds, state of the birds, upland terrestrial birds, wading birds|

These four birds, an American Oystercatcher, a Greater Sage-Grouse, a Reddish Egret and a Mountain Plover are all facing the risk of extinction without serious conservation measures to reduce declines in populations and habitat destruction.