Glacier Park Magazine

The Quarterly Journal of Glacier National Park

A collection of Glacier National Park birds

Glacier National Park and its surrounding wildlands area great place to go birding. We recommend three things: A good pair of binoculars, comfortable shoes, and bear spray, because you never know when you'll run into a grizzly or black bear. Good birding trails include the McDonald Creek Oxbow, which has a host of warbler species as well as waterfowl, the Red Eagle Lake Trail in St. Mary, both the north shore and south shores of Two Medicine Lake and the Highline Trail for alpine species like gray crowned rosy finches. The following is just a small sampling of our bird photo library.

Glacier National Park birds

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Bald eagle in snow

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Eagle cleans beak

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Ruby crowned kinglet, fall

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Swallows at St. Mary

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Pine grosbeak, female

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Male pine grosbeak

Red poll in snow

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Pileated woodpecker in Glacier.

Common red poll, upside down

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Red-naped sapsucker at nest in Glacier

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Common loon, Glacier National Park.

Starling

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Common goldeneyes

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Bohemian waxwing

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Common red poll

Trumpeter swan, Lake McDonald

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Three toed woodpeckers

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Chipping sparrow

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western tanager

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American dipper, Glacier National Park

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Varied thrush

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Northern Hawk Owl, Glacier National Park