10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2016
I admit that sometimes I am pretty negative about ducks. But this, this above all redeems ducks: they sit still long enough that you can show them to your non-birding friends. Ducks, on the other hand, have a charming tendency to just sit. And in spring, there are such lovely ducks to show them.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2017
The region has justifiably been referred to as the “Duck Factory of North America.” The resulting properties—WPAs—are small ponds, wetlands, and associated grasslands, primarily in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana, but also in Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa. But taken as a whole, WPAs total almost 3.8
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2024
In fact, the overwhelming majority of federal land is in just 11 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). The Laysan Duck is found on only two remote Hawaiian atolls, both NWRs.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 20, 2013
I also ran into a local birder who was unimpressed when I gushed about how much I was enjoying my morning — until I explained that I was from Montana. Well, I am sort of am from Montana now, I guess. My last species in the park was Wood Duck , which we have in Montana too but which is always fun to see.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 5, 2012
There were, in her book, three kinds: Owls, Pigeons, and Ducks. I just chalked this up to my friends being weird, until I took the Master Naturalist Class at the Montana Natural History this fall. water birds (ducks!) Think about the owls, pigeons, and ducks: the birds people already know. In the U.S.,
10,000 Birds
MAY 24, 2013
When you move on to Montana, you discover that there are worse things that one species of tiny screaming mammal tricking you each year as you try to cope with an influx of songbirds and a winterized memory bank that contains only Black-capped Chickadees and Dark-eyed Juncos (and only about half their calls at that.) You sigh and move on.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2016
Whether there is one Sandhill Crane in a camas field in Montana or 1,000 in a flock on their wintering grounds, they put the charismatic AND the mega in charismatic megafauna. Among the most famous of these is the Sandhill Crane – with its oldest confirmed remains dating back 2.5 million years to the Lower Paleolithic.
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