Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
Mountain-Prairie Region
Information for Birders

Montana Rare Bird Alert

For sightings of rare or accidental species, please provide detailed information to:

1. Montana Bird Distribution
Montana Natural Heritage Program
P.O. Box 201800
1515 East Sixth Avenue
Helena, MT  59620-1800
(406) 444-0914
mtnhp@state.mt.us     (e-mails preferred)

In order for your sighting to be included in the Montana Bird Distribution information, the Montana Bird Distribution Committee requires that a Montana Rare Bird Report Form be filled out.  The form can be obtained from the Montana Natural Heritage Program listed above.

To view an online, searchable version of Montana Bird Distribution information, visit the Montana Natural Heritage Program website listed in Websites of Interest to Birders and navigate to Animals, Searches, Bird Latilong Search.  For the citation for P.D. Skaar's Montana Bird Distribution, see Recommended Reading.

To hear a tape-recorded message of recent bird sighting around the state, call:

BigFork  (406) 756-5595 (Flathead Audubon Birding Update)

Last updated: March 1, 2011