At first glance, there is nothing cuter than a cotton ball-sized piping plover chick scurrying about the water�s edge or tumbling through tufts of dune grass. Now imagine staring at the Maine Coastal Birds Crew calendar of 65 anticipated hatch dates for piping plover nests ranging from Georgetown to Ogunquit. We promise those initial feelings […]
Environmental Education
Waterfowl Wizardry Runs in the Family for Maine’s Junior Duck Stamp Winner
Some of the nation’s most impressive waterfowl art is created in a single, sunny studio room from a home in Biddeford. There, among the cluttered desks and tables, three women of the Lowell family�mom, Rebekah, and daughters Elektrah, 14, and Ariah, 12�spend their evenings drawing and painting images of nature from their backyard and neighborhood. […]
Celebrate Your Watershed This Week
Maine�s watersheds provide us with incredibly rich ways to learn about our ecology, culture, economy, and the connections amongst and between them. For millennia, animals have migrated to Maine�s rivers from around the world to reproduce. For ten thousand years, Wabanaki people have understood and utilized the countless resources these watersheds provide for human life […]
Announcing the winners of the 2020-21 Junior Duck Stamp Contest!
Congratulations to all the participants and the winners in this year’s Maine Junior Duck Stamp challenge! The young artists impressed the judges, who met on March 26 to review the art submitted by more than 400 Maine students in grades K through 12 taking part in this federal program.� The Junior Duck Stamp program, coordinated […]
Junior Duck Stamp judging complete!
Their ages ranged from five to eighteen, and their waterfowl paintings covered the spectrum, too, but all the entries in this year’s Maine Junior Duck Stamp challenge had one thing in common. They all embodied the spirit of the program�the value of wetland and waterfowl conservation. This federal program encourages students to explore their natural […]
Introducing Salmon Shorts!
Just a few hundred years ago, Atlantic Salmon were abundant up and down the northeast coast. Now, Maine is home to the last remaining wild populations of Atlantic Salmon in the United States and they are a federally recognized endangered species. This decline has had huge impacts on everything connected to salmon�traditional ways of living, […]
Now Hiring: Environmental Education Intern (Summer 2021)
Location: Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center The environmental education intern leads educational programs on salt-marsh ecology at schools, remotely through online presentation programs, some at Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center and other locations through the end of the school year (training provided) . After June 19, the center is open to the public full time, and the […]
Snapshots from Christmas Bird Count Weekend 2020
Not even a pandemic and a fresh 19 inches of snow stopped Maine birders from taking part in the Christmas Bird Count this weekend. The official season for the 121st annual Count, or CBC, runs between December 14, 2020 and January 4, 2021, though many of the regions held their event this Saturday, December 19. […]
Family Fun Connections: Skeletons
Last fall, my son fell in love with one of the Halloween decorations at his school. It was a crow skeleton, complete with what I can only describe as �feather bones� on its wings and tail. We stopped to admire it twice a day on our way in and out of the building, and I […]