Found an injured raptor? Please contact:
Brooke Tanner, Wild Skies Raptor Center: 406-244-5422 or 406-210-3468
Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is responsible for any other type of bird emergency. You can contact their Montana WILD rehab center in Helena (406-444-9942), or Regional Headquarters in Missoula (406-444-2535).
We have many groups conducting fabulous bird research in the Bitterroot Valley. Please visit their websites to learn more and support them!!
Raptor View Research Institute
Here are a few links to websites of cooperating groups:
National Audubon Society
www.audubon.org
Montana Audubon
www.mtaudubon.org
Montana Audubon Chapters:
Five Valleys Audubon
www.fvaudubon.org
Flathead Audubon
www.flatheadaudubon.org
Last Chance Audubon
www.lastchanceaudubon.org
Sacajawea Audubon
www.sacajaweaaudubon.org
Yellowstone Valley Audubon
www.yvaudubon.org
Like to read? Here's a list of books recommended by our board and members!
For Beginning Birders and those who wish to increase their skills:
Birding for Beginners, a Comprehensive Introduction to the Art of Birdwatching.
Buff, Falcon Guides of Globe Pequot Press
Peterson Guide to Bird Identification in 12 Steps
Howell and Sullivan: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
How to Be a Better Birder
Lovitch: Princeton University Press
Good Birders Don’t Wear White, 50 Tips from North America’s Top Birders
Edited by White: Houghton Mifflin Co.
1001 Secrets Every Birder Should Know, Tips and Trivia for the Backyard and Beyond
Stiteler: Running Press
The Bird Watching Answer Book, Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Birds in Your Backyard and Beyond
Erickson: Storey Publishing
Sibley Birder’s Life List and Field Diary
Sibley: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Sibley’s Birding Basics: How to identify birds using the clues in feathers, habitats, behavior, and sounds
Sibley: Barnes and Noble
Guidebooks
Field Guide to Birds, Western Region.
Stokes: Little, Brown and Co.
Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America
Kenn Kaufman: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
Peterson: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
Sibley: Knopf
National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
Dunn and Alderfer: National Geographic
For the KIDS:
Audubon Birding Adventures for Kids
Wolfson, Barker, National Audubon Society: Cool Springs Press
Bird Feats of Montana.
Oberbillig: Farcountry Press
You Can Be a Nature Detective
Kochanoff: Mountain Press
Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?
Gray and Pak: Clarion Books
Senorita Mariposa
Gundersheimer and Rivero: Nancy Paulson Books
Whose Nest?
Cochrane and Troughton: Insight Kids
On the Wing
Elliott and Stadtlander: Candlewick
Feathers, Not Just for Flying
Stewart and Brannen: Charlesbridge
Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books
Alden, Peterson, Sill: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Birds at Your Fingertips
Nayer and McGinness: McClanahan Book Co.
Birds (Reader’s Digest Pathfinders)
Reader’s Digest Children’s Publishing, Inc.
Montana and the Northern Rockies:
Birding Trails MONTANA, 240 Birding Locations Across the Big Sky State
Robbins: Sandhill Crane Press
Birding Montana, Your Guide to 45 Premier Birding Locations
McEneaney: Falcon Press
Montana Birds
Putnam and Kennedy: Lone Pine Press.
Birds of Montana
Marks, Hendricks, and Casey: Buteo Books
Montana Birds: A pocket folding Guide to Familiar Species
Kavanagh and Leung: Waterford Press
Raptors:
Hawks From Every Angle: How to Identify Raptors in Flight
Liguori and Sibley: Princeton University Press
Hawks at a Distance: Identification of Migrant Raptors
Liguori and Dunne: Princeton University Press
Raptors of Western North America: The Wheeler Guides
Wheeler: Princeton University Press
Hawks in Flight
Dunne, Sibley, and Sutton: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company
Raptors of the Rockies
Kate Davis: Mountain Press Publishing Co.
Raptors of the West
Davis, Palmer and Dunlop: Mountain Press Publishing Co.
Bald Eagle Nest
Kate Davis: Stackpole Books
Falcons of North America
Kate Davis: Mountain Press Pub. Co.