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Visit our Clark Fork River-Grass Valley Important Bird Area page to learn more or download a .pdf of the brochure here.
How to Tell a Juvenile Golden Eagle from a Juvenile Bald Eagle How to Age and Identify a Juvenile and Sub-Adult Bald Eagle These two articles from Avian Report should help you with your eagle ID. … Continue reading
Summer 2020: Dick Hutto and Sue Reel are producing a series of short videos on birds and birding. You can view Bird Notes on YouTube: … Continue reading
“A friend once said that using only one field mark, it is impossible to separate Red-eyed Vireo from Black-crowned Night-Heron. As a member of the Colorado Bird Records Committee (CBRC or Committee) for the past six years, I have seen the truth of … Continue reading
Five Valleys Audubon Society has resumed activities including meeting and field trips. Due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic we continue to practice masking and social distancing during all events.
We tallied 233,758 individual birds from 33 circles; a cumulative 141 species on count day and 4 more during count week. Rare birds counted were the Western Tanager, Brown Thrasher, Green-tailed Towhee, Black-headed Grosbeak, and Lesser Goldfinch. Two species were added to the cumulative list for Montana CBCs – Western Tanager and Chukar. Continue reading
Professor Erick Greene and his students in the Wildlife Biology Program at the University of Montana are continuing a multi-year study into how birds communicate, using the latest tools to decipher not only alerts, but an amazing array of very specific messages. Continue reading
One of the local TV stations, KPAX, ran a nice article about Five Valleys Audubon Society recently. Bird watchers search for raptors in Ronan … Continue reading