A record 10 fluffy California condor chicks have hatched at our wildlife center, the biggest batch yet in our 18-year effort to save this critically endangered species from extinction! | Oregon Zoo

🐸 Amphibian Week The Muddy Valley Habitat Preserve, near McMinnville, has one of the Willamette Valley’s largest populations of Western pond turtles, which are struggling due to loss of habitat as well as predation from invasive American bullfrogs. ODFW Conservation Biologist Susan Barnes is working with natural resource students a Western Oregon University to learn more about a recent bullfrog invasion by looking at what they’re eating. This kind of data can help wildlife managers find the bes