With guidance from Maine Audubon’s Curious by Nature online education program, Mr. Hobbs and Mr. Coburn’s 5th grade classes at Fairmount School in Bangor took a deep dive into the world of bats—and emerged as true wildlife advocates. The students had the opportunity to connect with Kelby Houtz, a biologist with the Maine Department of […]
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Bangor Fifth Graders Take Action for Birds
Fifth-grade students in Ms. Mullin’s class at Mary Snow School in Bangor have been soaring with purpose—by tackling the issue of habitat loss for cavity-nesting birds in their local watershed. After learning how urbanization and landscape changes have impacted bird species like bluebirds, chickadees, and wrens, the students decided to take action. Their goal: build […]
Maine Audubon comments on passage of seawall bill
Statement on the Passage of LD 228, “An Act to Allow Coastal Seawalls to Be Raised by up to 2 Feet in Order to Accommodate Predicted Sea Level Rise” On May 29, 2025, Governor Mills signed LD 228, “An Act to Allow Coastal Seawalls to Be Raised by up to 2 Feet in Order to […]
BirdSafe Maine – Spring 2025 Season Recap
May 31 marked the end of BirdSafe Maine’s Spring 2025 bird monitoring season. It was, sadly, another eventful effort in Portland and around Maine, though there are signs of significant progress. Read on to learn about how it went. On the Portland Route We recorded 43 total birds dead or injured on the streets of […]
Backyard Bird of the Month for June: Eastern Phoebe
“FEE-BEE!!” Many Mainers look forward to this raspy song each spring. Eastern Phoebes spend the winter in the southern United States and Mexico, and are early migrants back to the Northeast. These large flycatchers are dark gray with nearly black heads and light undersides that often show a faint yellow wash. Their large eyes—typical of […]
Input needed on State Wildlife Action Plan
May 28 update from Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife: We invite you to provide input on identifying significant Threats and what conservation actions are needed to address those Threats. Step 1: Review the list of Threats and Conservation Actions Step 2: Share your input! Based on your personal understanding of and familiarity with […]
Fifth-Grade Students Dive into the Penobscot River Ecosystem
Fifth-grade students in Ms. Bendure’s class at Mary Snow School in Bangor have taken a deep dive into understanding their local waterways thanks to a year-long partnership with Maine Audubon. This hands-on learning experience has been made possible through the Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) program, supported by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). […]
Goodbye, Fry! A Salmon Send-Off to Remember for Endangered Species Day
Today we honor Endangered Species Day with stories about our work with schoolchildren in the Greater Portland and Greater Bangor area to raise and release endangered Atlantic Salmon. FIELDS POND This story begins back on a chilly February day, when Northern Programs Director David Lamon and Community-Based Education Manager Melissa Gallagher trudged through knee-deep snow, […]
Community Scientists Wanted for Mountain Birdwatch
Maine Audubon is looking for volunteers to help our friends at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies (VCE) in a community science effort called Mountain Birdwatch to help protect high elevation birds across the Northeast! There are four Maine sites left to be adopted and surveyed on one day of your choice in the month of […]