The Bridger Raptor Festival is an annual event held the first weekend in October in and around Bozeman, Montana. The festival, which is free to the public, centers around the largest known Golden Eagle migration in the United States. Since 1991 a raptor migration count has taken place every fall at the Bridger Bowl ski area in the Gallatin National Forest just north of Bozeman.
Festival activities center around raptor viewing and feature nature walks, talks on raptor identification, live raptors from the Montana Raptor Conservation Center, and entertaining educational programs and activities for all ages. Sacajawea Audubon is one of the co-hosts of the festival and provides the educational activities for families, including Build A Nifty Nestbox, Binocular Blitz Game, Sketch-A-Bird, Passport to Education, and the Great Migration Game.
Friday night is the kickoff of the festival with a keynote speaker or film screening at the Ellen Theatre in Bozeman. On Saturday and Sunday, the festival moves up to Bridger Bowl Ski Area at both the Jim Bridger and Saddle Peak Lodges.
For more information, please visit www.bridgerraptorfest.org