10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
I should have known that birding High Island meant I would be 20 minutes away from a place where hundreds of thousands of shorebirds and waterbirds rest, feed, breed, and generally have a good time. I love American Avocets and I rarely see them in such marvelous breeding plumage, so I was in heaven. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2014
My Dark-eyed Juncos are trilling in preparation to retreat to quieter breeding grounds, the Black-Capped Chickadees sing their two notes, and the Song Sparrows absolutely will not shut up. And yet, perhaps ironically, the biggest sign of spring in a Montana March is when the skies fill with white. The Varied Thrushes came back.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2014
Though hardly common, Great Gray sightings are a yearly occurrence in Western Montana, and it is one of the twelve species of owl known to breed in the state. We arrived at Maclay Flat just in time to see three men unloading the sort of heavy-duty optics and camera equipment that signals serious birders on the hunt.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2012
Because when you disappear for two weeks in the middle of a gray Montana autumn (there’s snow on the ground as I write this from back in Missoula,) nothing quite tops coming back and telling all your friends you saw a flamingo, does it? Not quite as cool to non-birders.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2012
They’re the classic charismatic megafauna, and it’s not at all hard to see why they’ve worked their way into so much folklore and why the people of Europe have made so many efforts to conserve them in the face of industrialization, pesticide overuse, hunting, and other threats. And overall, areas where good stork P.R.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Jennifer Ackerman brings a sense of curiosity and wonder to her material, whether she’s interviewing evolutionary ecologist Christopher Clark about the mechanics of an owl’s silent flight or looking for Northern Pygmy Owl nests in Montana with a team from the Owl Research Institute. They are also hunted.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2013
My best bird of the year was without a doubt the Montana Baikal Teal , a bird that combined rarity, beauty, and the good grace to stick around long enough for me to actually see it. Montana’s Baikal Teal by suneko. Making it just under two years old when it came back to the High Arctic to continue the cycle.
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