Welcome to the Montana Natural Heritage Program’s TRACKER. We intend TRACKER to eventually be the major source of statewide information on plants, animals, and communities.  This release of TRACKER ...[more] (1) provides distributional information for bird and other animal species by quarter degrees of latitude and longitude in a manner consistent with P.D. Skaars Montana Bird Distribution (Lenard et al. 2003), (2) allows individuals to quickly report bird observations online with precise spatial coordinates that are much more useful for conservation planning and management activities, (3) allows individuals to view all their own bird observations in the context of a variety of map layers and spatial scales, (4) dynamically creates a list of bird species that have been reported within the area viewed on screen, and (5) provides statewide access to aerial photos, 1:24,000 scale topographic maps, land stewardship information, county boundaries, public land survey boundaries, and information on highways, lakes, and streams.

In the near future, ...[more] as time and resources allow more spatial and tabular querying capabilities will be built into the application in order to enhance its usefulness.

We have turned off the ability to enter bird records on the old MBD web site....[more]  However, while we are developing tabular queries for the new web site, the tabular querying capabilities of the old web site will remain on.  Unfortunately, the old web site will not be accessing the latest version of the database so more recently reported records will not be available for tabular queries on the old MBD web site

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FireFox users, ...[more]  We are working out the FireFox bugs and will release a version that works in most of the modern browsers.  For now you need IE 6+ to use this site.