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.
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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
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
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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Meanwhile, a birder from Montana who happened to be watching the Magnificent Pirate next to me, was shouting the magic words, “Life Bird!” The birds are so busy, finding sticks, flying with sticks, fixing nests, tending to eggs in nests, preening feathers, touching bills, feeding chicks, refusing to feed chicks.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
She has a master’s degree in science from the University of Montana, and is the author, as mentioned above, of Condors in Canyon Country: The Return of the California Condor to the Grand Canyon Region (Grand Canyon Association, 2007), recipient of many awards including the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award for Nature and the Environment.
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