Sarah Swanson, author of the all-new “ Best Little Book of Birds: The Cascade Range and Columbia River Gorge”, joined us to share more.

This is the fourth time the massive 87-year-old statue atop the Oregon Capitol Building is undergoing a re-gild.

Although the birds are still common, the decrease has scientists worried.” “The American kestrel species is just declining all over its range, Gray added.

Cooper disagreed. “The Northern Range has always been a beaver-willow landscape, probably for more than 10,000 years,” he wrote.