Harlequin Duck by John Ashley Harlequin Ducks are colorful sea ducks that winter on the coast and breed on fast-moving mountain streams, but little is known about the timing and movement between breeding, molting and wintering areas. Join Kristina Smucker who will describe an...

Northern Shrike by Shane Sater At the Sevenmile Creek stream restoration site, a few miles outside of Helena, the stories of birds make up a calendar of the year. In March the sun reflects intensely from the last patches of wet snow, and a...

Andean Condor Join Last Chance Audubon for a ‘Movie Night’ featuring the Animal Planet film: “The Path of the Condor”. This film features the Andes mountain range, incredible landscapes and the Andean condors, regarded as ‘Kings of the Skies’.  Experience the life of the...

Snow Goose flock - Photo by Bob Martinka In the fall of 2016 when roughly 60,000 Snow Geese and Ross’s Geese landed in the Berkeley Pit in Butte; approximately 3,000 geese died despite round-the-clock hazing efforts that continued for days. Other than that event,...

Members, friends and families are invited to help celebrate Last Chance Audubon Society's 50th birthday! On Sunday, July 31st, LCAS will host a celebration to commemorate 50 years of education, conservation and enjoyment of birds. The celebration will take place at the Spring Meadow...

Baird's Sandpiper by Stephen Turner Last Chance Audubon continues to support World Shorebirds Day by participating in Global Shorebird Counts. These worldwide surveys are conducted each September and provide a setting for observing, appreciating and helping to sustain shorebird populations. “Some 50% of the...

Colima Pygmy Owl by Dan Ellison Join Dan Ellison for a virtual birding tour of the Oaxaca, Mexico area. In December 2019 Dan and his spouse Jane Fournier traveled to Mexico for ten days of birding around Oaxaca City, Huatulco on the southwest coast,...