For Live Updates: There is a Maine Rare Bird Alert group on GroupMe, which is focused solely on rare bird sightings. (Instructions on how to join here.) There is also a GroupMe group called Maine Steller's Sea-Eagle Discussion Group which was created as an easier way to post frequent updates …
The conservation team is starting to hire seasonal staff for summer projects. Two positions are now open for applications: Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge Piping Plover Technician - southern Maine Maine Audubon is hiring a Piping Plover Technician. This is a seasonal position at …
Historically restricted to the western half of this continent, Evening Grosbeaks have expanded eastward thanks to the food they found here. Evening Grosbeaks are large finches, and like other finches will often have irruptions in winter, meaning they’ll leave their typical range when food is scarce. …
Does anyone really want to think back to January 2021, to when this crazy year began? A new president was about to take office in the White House, 2020 had been the hottest year on record according to NASA, 23 species were about to be declared extinct, and it was the deadliest month of the …
For our year-end message, the staff of Maine Audubon is pleased to bring you a reading of the poem, Metamorphosis/We Change, (inspired by "Flight from the City" by Jóhann Jóhannson), written by Samaa Abdurraqib. Samaa Abdurraqib (she/her) lives in Brunswick, ancestral land of the Abenaki people. …
It is almost time for the start of the Winter Season of the Maine Bird Atlas, a project by the Maine Dept of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to document the breeding and wintering distributions of Maine's birds. This five year project has just one breeding season (in 2022) left, and we are about to …
As we report and gear up for late fall and early winter, we often remind folks that fall is the best time to start your own native plants from seed. Maine native plants are beneficial and beautiful, and growing your own from seeds is economical, simple, fun, and rewarding. Maine Audubon is …
It’s been a full year since Governor Mills released the Climate Action Plan (CAP), a blueprint for meeting Maine’s ambitious climate goals authored by the Maine Climate Council. One year isn’t a very long time, especially when much of the public focus has remained on dealing with the lingering …
An increasingly common sight during Maine’s winter is the bright sky blue flash of an Eastern Bluebird lingering in our backyards. The trend has been well documented thanks to long running surveys like the Christmas Bird Count (CBC), showing that just a couple of decades ago bluebirds were scarce …
