Check out Flathead Audubon’s entertaining new film featuring our very own eccentric Professor Avian Guano, Bir.D., narrating all the reasons that birds really do rock! Birds really are critical to our existence. We appreciate not only their beauty and songs, but also the many benefits they provide. Our new video brings the message home in…
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by Kathy Ross Spring is here and we are spending more time at home. Let’s take these challenging times and turn them into a unique and productive opportunity to make a healthier world in our own landscapes for our birds, pollinators, wildlife and the environment. Three very bird friendly and valuable things you can do…
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by Linda Winnie No – this is not about a local rock concert. It is about recent observations in the Valley of birds wearing colored neck collars inscribed with big letters and numbers that can be read from a distance. In general, it is geese and swans that are banded with colored collars. Swans are…
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By Denny Olson My son (second-grade teacher-from-home) sent me a Facebook post — not his own — that summed up our present predicament in quarantine. “The spread of COVID-19 is determined by only two factors: 1. How dense the population is2. How dense the population is The lesson is clear. Expertise, and following expertise suggestions,…
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by Carole Jorgensen While you are “hunkering” down at home, others are hard at work in Washington weakening federal rules or not moving important legislation through Congress. Please consider contacting your Congressional Representatives on these very important issues. To send messages, simply google websites for Congressman Gianforte and Senators Tester and Daines. Bipartisan bills to provide full,…
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Highlights from the April 6, 2020 Board meeting A motion was made and passed to cancel the May 2020 general annual meeting and the field trips, in order to comply with limitation on public gatherings and safety recommendations related to the coronavirus pandemic. A general meeting and field trips will be held at the earliest,…
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by Kathy Ross Feathers, hollow bones, no more than air cloaked in brilliant hues. Our neotropical birds migrate at speeds up 100 mph, at elevations as high as 15,000 feet, for up to 8 hours at a stretch or some never stopping for thousands of miles. To top off this feat, they know their way…
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by Linda Winnie The Montana Loon Society is offering cash prizes for 2020 observations of unique banded loons or confirmed unbanded breeding loons! This contest is generously funded by the Montana Loon Society. Two $100 awards will be decided by a random drawing from all individuals who submitted at least one observation. To encourage early…
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FAS President Gael Bissell CANCELLATIONS AND POSTPONEMENTS. As we continue coping with this unfortunate pandemic, our non-profit organization, like many others, will be following CDC and state/local regulations to minimize people-to-people exposure for a bit longer. As such, we are cancelling our May Annual Meeting and Potluck at the Whitefish Community Center. The annual business…
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