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Tag: Tundra Swan

Help Preserve Flathead Crane Staging Area

By Jake BramanteNovember 10, 2016November 10, 2016 Categories: Conservation Tags: Northern Pintail, Sandhill Crane, Tundra Swan

Flathead Land Trust is working to conserve a 400-acre portion of the Sandhill Crane staging area in West Valley. Laura Katzman of the Land Trust reported on this project at our October meeting. Here is a short summary for those who missed her presentation. Large numbers of Sandhill Cranes, at times more than 400 birds, gather…

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Trumpeter Swan

By Flathead AudubonJuly 10, 2014November 3, 2015 Categories: Bird of the Month Tags: Bird of the Month, Trumpeter Swan, Tundra Swan

By March Mahr The Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) is the largest waterfowl in North America and the largest swan in the world. Yet there’s more than their size to blow a horn about—Trumpeter Swans are making a comeback. Once abundant and widespread within a wide band extending from Alaska along the Pacific Coast to the…

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Our Bird of the Month

Golden-crowned Kinglets

Hardly a Life of Royalty by Karen Nichols Golden-crowned Kinglets are a mystery and a marvel of wintertime survival in the north woods. These grey and olive birds weigh only the mass of two pennies — just bigger than a Rufous Hummingbird. This species is Montana’s smallest permanent resident passerine and it eats insects all…

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