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Wings Across
the Big Sky Bird Festival
June 8, 2012 - June 10, 2012
Kalispell, Montana
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Audubon and Flathead Audubon are pleased to
co-host this year’s bird festival in Kalispell, with
easy access to a mind-boggling diversity of great
birding destinations! We invite you to join us among the
towering, glacial-carved mountains, beautiful coniferous
forests, and abundant wetlands of the scenic Rocky
Mountains and expansive Flathead Valley where birders
and non-birders alike can plan on enjoying and
participating in the abundant festival activities.
This year’s festival theme"Birding and Conservation: The
Crown of the Continent," will feature top-notch experts
and speakers. Three exciting pre-festival workshops are
offered on Friday—including community bird education
training, a workshop focused on private landowner
conservation efforts in Flathead Valley, and a third
that will explore complex regional forest and wildlife
conservation issues in the face of climate change and
related threats to natural ecosystem health. The
festival is a family-friendly event that includes a
highly entertaining, educational session with Professor
Avian Guano on Friday evening.
For Saturday and Sunday mornings, 26 total field trips
are planned including trips offered for youth and
beginning birders. We will visit nearby Glacier National
Park (popular for Harlequin Ducks, American Dippers,
Northern Hawk Owls and many other species) and a variety
of Flathead Valley wetlands and riparian areas with
their tremendous diversity of migrating waterfowl and
neo-tropical visitors. There are eight Saturday
afternoon presentations including Keynote speaker, Peter
Sherrington: Golden Eagle Migration in the Alberta
Rockies. Saturday evening’s Banquet, Awards, Raffle, &
Auctions are sure to please and entertain.
Festival Headquarters: located at the Hilton Garden Inn
at 1840 US Hwy 93 South in Kalispell. The venue is
spacious and centrally located for convenient access to
field trip destinations. Noteworthy, too, is the short
distance (15 minutes by car) to Flathead Lake and an
easy 45 minutes to Glacier National Park.
Call
1-406-756-4500 1-406-756-4500 for reservations and be
sure to mention the Bird Festival for the group rate.
Online Registration at
http://www.mtaudubon.org
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