10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. Hochachka noted that one had spent the winter “as far north as eastern Montana&#. But the story, and the birds, did not stop there.
10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2014
The state of Montana is very firm on the subject of spotted knapweed, and the closely related diffuse knapweed and Russian knapweed. Spotted knapweed arrived in Montana in the 1920s, most likely in a batch of alfalfa seed or perhaps on the creep down from western Canada, where it may have come ashore in the ballast of ships.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 6, 2014
Introducing this year’s Dunrovin osprey chicks – Lunar, Sol, and Shadow, named for the eclipse that took place the night the first egg was laid. Birds Montana names Ospreys web cams' Fortunately, I can now put my irrational fears aside, because one of my favorite sets of names won.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2014
The two have built up a devoted following through years of triumph – like last season, when they fledged three young – and tragedy – like the season before, when their eggs didn’t even hatch. Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood.
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. Featured image: a Mississippi Sandhill Crane egg begins to hatch, courtesy of the U.S. That’s not even counting the fact that they dance.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2013
The swallows here in Montana have an admirable ability to assort themselves into nesting niches. In fact, it seems like Violet-green swallows will nest anywhere they can fit in an egg and someone to incubate it. Bank Swallows live in our many sandy banks. Tree Swallows live in trees — and nest boxes.
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