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Education Trunks for Birds

By Flathead AudubonJuly 27, 2015November 3, 2015 Categories: Lifelong Learning

Bird ID and Costume Trunk – for pre-school to middle school ages. What’s a great way to learn about birds? By becoming one of course! This trunk provides a costume to dress your students up with all the major bird adaptations to turn them into “real” birds of a feather, and real feathers for show…

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Ruddy Duck

By Flathead AudubonMarch 15, 2015November 4, 2015 Categories: Bird of the Month Tags: Bird of the Month

THE DUCK WITH THE SKY BLUE BILL by Linda de Kort “Why did the artist paint that duck with a bright blue bill?” That is a question posed by those admiring the colorful Montana Audubon license plate. The answer is: because that is an accurate representation of the sky blue color of the bill of…

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Gray-crowned Rosy-finch

By Flathead AudubonDecember 6, 2014November 4, 2015 Categories: Bird of the Month Tags: Bird of the Month, Gray Jay

By Dennis Olson In the early autumn I lunched above timberline in Glacier National Park with a small group of hikers, overlooking the vast prairie lands to the west. The wind was howling through a saddle and we were sheltered in the upper reaches of a cliff dropping thousands of feet to the valley floor….

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Downy & Hairy Woodpecker

By Flathead AudubonNovember 12, 2014November 4, 2015 Categories: Bird of the Month Tags: Bird of the Month, Hairy Woodpecker

HAIRY OR DOWNY? By Jeannie Marcure This month’s feature birds are two of my favorites—partly I suspect, because like many of us, they are yearlong residents in the Flathead. Their frequent appearance at my suet feeders has brightened many cold, snowy days and in March their persistent drumming as they search for mates is often…

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Bohemian & Cedar Waxwings

By Flathead AudubonNovember 12, 2014November 4, 2015 Categories: Bird of the Month Tags: Bird of the Month, Bohemian Waxwings, Cedar Waxwing

By Gail Cleveland There is a chill in the air, the flowers are fading and the Mountain Ash berries, snowberries, rose hips and ornamental crab apples will soon be the “color” in my backyard. These berries will be the winter food for one of my favorite birds, the Waxwings. During the winter months, flocks of…

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Black-backed Woodpecker

By Flathead AudubonNovember 12, 2014November 4, 2015 Categories: Bird of the Month Tags: Bird of the Month, Black-backed Woodpecker

BLACK-BACKED WOODPECKERS DEPEND ON BURNED FORESTS  By Jeannie Marcure As I write this article, the summer fires in our area have consumed more than 120,000 acres of timber in the Flathead and Glacier Park areas. For more than three weeks now our skies have been choked with smoke and our news reports filled with the…

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  1. TRUMPETER SWAN ECOLOGY AND REINTRODUCTION

    March 8 @ 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  2. SPRING WATERFOWL- CHURCH SLOUGH AND LOWER VALLEY WETLANDS

    March 21 @ 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  3. FREEZEOUT LAKE AND THE SNOW GEESE MIGRATION

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Our Bird of the Month

Clark’s Nutcracker

by Margaret Parodi A recent sighting of a flock of Clark’s Nutcrackers in my neighborhood in Bigfork sparked my renewed interest in this bird; the flash of the white and black tail feathers caught my eye. They were feeding in trees and on the ground in a stand of Ponderosa Pines and were going after…

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