In order to monitor for habitat improvements the Habitat Restoration Project will conduct a bird count twice each year.  In Februrary, students, faculty, and Tahoma Audubon volunteers  counted 17 different bird species on the PLU campus in two hours:

American Crow

Black-capped chickadee

Glaucous wing seagull

Ring bill seagull

Pine siskin

Bushtit

Song sparrow

Red-breasted sap-sucker

Mallard duck

Junco

Red-breasted nuthatch

Golden-crowned kinglet

Chestnut backed chickadee

Red crossbill

Bewichk's wren

Spotted Towhee

Northern flicker