Presented by Mackenzie Dey, Kathy Ross and Jessie Walthers Join three native landscaping experts and view a Flathead Audubon produced video about how plants and animals become “native”, and how intricately woven the millions of relationships between natives form the balance of nature – especially those relationships between plants, insects, and birds. Popcorn optional! Learn…
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At our February 2024 General Meeting, Lou Bruno regaled his tales aboard the National Geographic Explorer has he visited Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falkland Islands. Far from a land of sea and ice, this rich ecosystem features seals, whales, albatrosses, petrels, and a variety of penguins in a varied landscape of rock, ice, grass,…
Read Moreby Darcy Thomas I have to say, we have the most incredible people at Flathead Audubon. Not only do you love birds and want to protect them and the places they live in, but you also want to help Flathead Audubon with its many activities and projects that make our chapter better. But we can…
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Presented by Lou Bruno Join Lou Bruno on an incredible epic journey aboard the National Geographic Explorer to the Antarctic, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. This is the world of snow-capped peaks, icebergs, pristine endless seas, and an unbelievable diversity of marine mammals and pelagic birds. Lou will offer a naturalist’s perspective on the…
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At our January 2024 General Meeting, Jami Belt, Dee Baginski, and Jess Garby of Glacier National Park discussed what they’ve learned in years of monitoring Common Loons and Golden Eagles through their citizen science programs. From loon nest monitoring and banding for Common Loons as well as fall hawk watch migration counts for Golden Eagles,…
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by Linda Winnie The first Bigfork Christmas Bird Count (CBC) took place in December 1974. This means that the birders who combed the Bigfork Count Circle for birds on December 16 of this past year were engaged in an historic task. They were carrying out the 50th Bigfork CBC! Ron Lang, then pastor of the…
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by Pam Willison, Owen Sowerwine Chairperson A big THANK YOU to Sliters Lumber & Building Supply for awarding Flathead Audubon a grant to fund the purchase of an EZ-Ject Lance system, for use on the invasive buckthorn in Owen Sowerwine. This year Sliters celebrated their 90th anniversary by offering grants to 90 nonprofits and groups in the Flathead…
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Co-presented by Jami Belt and Jess Garby Glacier National Park (GNP) hosts a large diversity of birds, and few are as charismatic as two of our top level predators – the Common Loon and Golden Eagle. While these birds inhabit very different haunts, both come to GNP as summer breeding residents and exist in very…
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