When you hear the term “pollinator”, generally you think of hummingbirds, bees and butterflies. Pollinators also include beetles, moths, flies, and bats. Pollinators are extremely important. They are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food. They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources…

7 Simple Ways to Help Birds 1. Make Windows Safer, Day and Night Simple adjustments to your windows can save birds’ lives. 2. Keep Cats Indoors Indoor cats live longer, healthier lives. Outdoor cats kill more birds than any other non-native threat. 3. Reduce Lawn by Planting Native Species The…

Sacajawea Audubon Society has a great new resource to help you attract birds and pollinators to your yard. We have created four downloadable “recipe cards”: 1. Invite Finches To Your Home2. Invite Hummingbirds To Your Home3. Invite Fruit-Eating Birds To Your Home4. Invite Pollinators To Your Home Each of these…

Avian Flu and your Bird Feeders: The Long and the Short  by Mikaela Howie Avian influenza, or avian flu, has been in the news a lot lately! What is the deal and what does it mean for our backyard bird feeders and for the wild birds we love? Here is…

By Lou Ann Harris & Beth Madden A recent study by the American Bird Conservancy, Fordham University, NYC Bird Alliance, and Stony Brook University, has uncovered new evidence that building collisions are killing significantly more birds than previously estimated. Well over a billion birds are killed annually just in the…

Help to Reduce Plastic in Our Environment, Our Birds and Our Bodies!  By Anne Ready, Gallatin Valley Earth Day More and more evidence is emerging that microplastics are causing great harm to our environment, wildlife and us! Microplastics are being found in the atmosphere, in our hydrologic cycle (on snowflakes),…

By Ben Goodheart and Mikaela Howie It’s a hard truth, but birdfeeders in the Gallatin Valley are one of the two main attractants, along with unsecured garbage, for bears seeking food. With fall fast approaching, bears will be searching for easy to find, high-caloric foods to pack on weight for…

By Lou Ann Harris We can all agree on how magical and beautiful hummingbirds are. Southwest Montana hosts several species including Calliope, Rufous and Broad-tailed.  Hummingbirds require perches, flowers, water & insects to survive and thrive. Maintaining their high-metabolism lifestyle means they must eat every 10 to 15 minutes and…

By Paulette Epple Spring is in the air and it’s that time of year when our thoughts naturally turn to gardening and landscaping. That could mean planting a new shade tree or a cluster of berry-producing shrubs for the birds. Or… maybe it’s time to jazz up the boulevard strip…

Invite birds to your backyard! One of the biggest threats birds face is habitat loss. Urban growth and new subdivisions are altering and destroying natural habitats, often resulting in sterile acres of mowed lawns and ornamental landscapes bereft of wildlife.  You can help reverse that trend by planting a bird…

By Victoria Saab, USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station Scientist Emeritus and Sacajawea Audubon Society Board Member; and Justin Runyon, USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station Research Entomologist Pollinating insects are threatened by pesticides, disease, climate change, and habitat loss. Bees, in particular, are declining in the United States and with them…

The very best thing you can do to help birds is to plant native trees, shrubs, and flowers on your property that provide the habitat and natural food sources that they need.  But YES, it is supportive to also put out bird seed if some best practices are followed.  Research…

Sacajawea Audubon Society has a new program to address the issue of free-roaming domestic cats and their impact on birds. It’s called “Keep Cats Safe” and includes educational information on keeping cats indoors, creating an outdoor enclosure or “catio”, and walking your cat on a leash. It’s been well-documented that…

Nearly one billion birds die each year in the U.S. from striking windows. Almost half of these deaths occur from residential windows. You can help reduce bird strikes by pinstriping your windows. It’s an easy and effective method. This new “how-to” video will show you how to pinstripe your windows…

Make Your Windows Safe For Birds! Glass collisions are taking a huge toll on our birds, with up to a billion birds being killed each year in the U. S. Birds don’t understand windows the way we do – they can’t tell reflections from reality. What appears to them as…

Golden Eagle Blood Lead Study 2021

Burdock is a particularly nasty invasive weed that is spreading along many of our local favorite trails, parks, and neighborhoods as well as across Montana ranchlands.  Because the plant represents a danger to birds, other wildlife, and important bird habitats, Sacajawea Audubon conducts a yearly campaign to eradicate burdock using…

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