Join Bitterroot Bird Alliance for the Stevensville Christmas Bird Count! We will gather at 7:30 at the Forest Service's Stevensville Ranger District at 88 Main St in Stevensville for location assignments and to form small groups. Birders of all levels are welcome! Questions? Contact compiler Deborah Goslin 406-214-7879.
This field trip is brought to you by our friends to the north: Five Valleys Audubon Society. Join Larry Weeks and Five Valleys Audubon for a beginning bird walk at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge from 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Meet the field trip leader at the Refuge Visitor's Center. This field trip involves walking on […]
Monday January 20th, 7 pm Nocturnal peeps: what night sounds can tell us about shorebird migration in Montana Shorebirds cover huge distances during spring and fall migration, passing over entire states without touching land. Where they settle, wetlands provide critical resources for refueling. With widespread population declines, understanding all aspects of their life histories is […]
Nature in nearly all manifestations has inspired poets since there were poets! And at least since the Roman poet Horace wrote Ars Poetica or the Art of Poetry in 19BC, literature, including poetry, sought to both instruct and delight. Poets in the ‘Root combines these two aims in an uncommon but simple way. One person […]
This field trip is brought to you by our friends to the north: Five Valleys Audubon Society. Thanks friends! Join Thomas Kallmeyer and Five Valleys Audubon for an all-day field trip to the Mission Valley to look for resident and overwintering raptors and other birds. Meet at 8:00 am on the West side of the Adams Center parking […]
This field trip is brought to you by our friends to the north: Five Valleys Audubon Society. Join Larry Weeks and Five Valleys Audubon for a beginning bird walk at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge from 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Meet the field trip leader at the Refuge Visitor's Center. This field trip involves walking on […]
Clark's Nutcracker: the Bird that Builds Forests, by Dr. Diana Tomback The presentation will cover Clark's Nutcrackers as keystone seed dispersers, and thus forest builders, for many conifers across the montane west but with the focus on nutcrackers and whitebark pine. With the decline in whitebark pine, now a federally threatened species, there is a […]
Join BBA's Alex Kearney and Five Valley Audubon's Steve Flood for an all-day trip to the Mission Valley at the south end of Flathead Lake. While the focus will be raptors of the area, we will discover other wintering species and perhaps see the very beginning signs of spring migration. We will meet at two […]
This field trip is brought to you by our friends to the north: Five Valleys Audubon Society. Join Larry Weeks and Five Valleys Audubon for a beginning bird walk at Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge from 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Meet the field trip leader at the Refuge Visitor's Center. This field trip involves walking on […]
"Five decades of Wolf Recovery in Montana and the West," with Diane K. Boyd Dr. Diane K. Boyd holds a Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana. She has studied wolves in Montana and far beyond, like in Romania and Italy. She is the author of numerous scientific papers on wolves. She now […]
Mission Valley Raptors, March 22, 2025 Join BBA's Alex Kearney for a trip to Mission Valley at the south end of Flathead Lake. While the focus will be raptors of the area, we will discover other early spring arrivals. Alex led the same trip one month ago and saw 39 species! We will meet at […]
