Tag: birds

  • Birds Build Worldwide Conservation Connections

    Birds Build Worldwide Conservation Connections

    by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator I am sitting in a conference room in a Helena hotel, attending the fall meeting of the Western Working Group of Partners […]

  • Trumpeting Success

    Trumpeting Success

    by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator In early April I counted 26 trumpeter swans feeding and resting in this small ranch pond near Ovando. They included a swan […]

  • Listening for the Songs of Spring

    Listening for the Songs of Spring

    American Bittern (photo credit: ©Luke Seitz, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator The first time each year that I hear the three […]

  • The Songs of Winter

    The Songs of Winter

    Snow Bunting by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator The Blackfoot in winter is generally a quiet place, not just in levels of sound but also activity. Many animals […]