Glacier Park bird monitoring part of continent-wide collaboration
A red-eyed vireo is examined by Deputy Superintendent Pete Webster and biologist Holly Garrod at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A red-eyed vireo is examined at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A red-eyed vireo is examined at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A red-eyed vireo is examined at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A hairy woodpecker is examined by the University of Montana Bird Ecology Lab's Holly Garrod at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A cedar waxwing is examined by the University of Montana Bird Ecology Lab's Holly Garrod at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A cedar waxwing captured at a MAPS site in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A female American Redstart is examined at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A northern waterthrush is banded by biologists at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Technician Kaile Kimball examines a pine siskin at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A male American Redstart is examined at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A bird is banded by biologists at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A female western tanager is examined at a MAPS station in Glacier National Park Aug. 11. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
Gear in hand, the group sets off through the eerily silent forest of Glacier National Park well before dawn.
As the sun’s first rays creep their way over the mountains to the east, more than a dozen biologists, volunteers and interns are hard at work setting up a series of large nets along the mist-covered shore of McDonald Creek...
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