Dr. Dave Manuwal, who has studied birds in the western US for over 60 years, will be the featured speaker at the Monday, November 12 meeting of the Flathead Audubon Society at 7pm in the Gateway Community Room in Kalispell. He received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University and a Master’s degree working with Dick...
Flathead Audubon Annual Christmas Bird Count December is here and once again it is Christmas Bird Count time! Join compilers Craig Hohenberger and Pete Fisher on Monday, December 10 at 7 PM in the United Way Conference Room of the Gateway Community Center, off US Highway 2 West in Kalispell. Craig and Pete will provide...
The 45th annual Bigfork Christmas Bird Count will be held Saturday, December 15th. First established in 1974, the Bigfork count circle is centered at the “Little Brown Church” north of Bigfork, and includes >30 miles of the Swan and Flathead Rivers, the north end of Flathead Lake, and habitats varying from croplands of the Lower...
Glacier National Park will be holding their Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, December 16. For more information contact Glacier National Park wildlife biologist, Lisa Bate lisa_bate@nps.gov or by phone: 888-7833.
Kalispell Christmas Bird Count The 20th annual Kalispell count will be on Sunday, December 30th. Centered at Reserve and Highway 93, the 15-mi diameter count circle includes Evergreen, much of the Flathead River corridor including the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area, Happy Valley, Herron Park, and the Kuhn’s Wildlife Area. This count has proven to be...
Join experienced tracker and wildlife researcher Brian Baxter on Saturday, January 12th, 2019 from 9am-2:30 pm. Winter is a great time to improve the outdoor skills of identifying wild animals and their behavior by understanding the oldest writing known on the earth - animal tracking! The group will search for clues and evidence in the...
John Ashley will present Flathead Audubon's evening program on Monday, January 14 at 7 pm in the Community Room at the Gateway West Community Center in Kalispell. Black-footed ferrets are Montana's rarest native mammal. John will begin the program with a historical review of Black-footed Ferrets in North America, focusing on ferrets in Montana. After...
Join FAS Conservation Educator and long-time teaching naturalist Denny Olson for a winter hike on Saturday, February 16, 2019 from 10:00 AM-noon in Kalispell. Winter birds, bird songs, tracking, botanizing, and seat-of-the-pants interpretation will be the unstructured itinerary. This is one of the best spots in the area to see Pileated and other woodpeckers, many kinds...
Here is a field trip for kids and all ages. Explore the Bigfork and Swan River area on Sunday, February 17, 2019 from 10am-1pm. Join us for an exciting morning of birding and learning about our winter avian residents in this area. We will visit local feeders to identify and count wintering songbirds as part...
Join Wildlife Biologist Diane Boyd and Flathead Audubon on Saturday, February 23, 2019 for a day of adventure, on skis or snowshoes, in the Swan Refuge winter wonderland. The group will meet at 9:30am in Kalispell or 10am in Bigfork. Diane's experienced tracking skills will bring alive the stories written in the snow of otters,...
Flathead Audubon, North Fork Preservation Society and Flathead Wildlife are sponsoring renowned wolf biologist Diane Boyd, who will present a program on the status of the wolf recovery program on Thursday, March 7, 2019 from 7-9 pm in Room 26 at the Gateway West Community Room in Kalispell. Diane began studying wolf recovery in the...
Flathead Audubon will hold a volunteer work party on Saturday, March 9 from 9 AM to noon to help reduce the amount of Houndstongue weeds in the Owens Sowerwine Natural area and around the new education trail behind the Montessori school in Kalispell. The tall Houndstongue seed heads are sticking up above the snow, making...
