As you go about your holiday shopping, remember that a one-year membership to Maine Audubon can be the perfect gift for the nature lovers in your life! Purchase a gift membership today and receive a card for the gift recipient telling them a gift membership is on its way. Gift memberships received by December 31 […]
News & Notes
Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020
Today is an important holiday for the nation, for Maine, and for us at Maine Audubon. It is a day officially set aside for acknowledging our land’s original inhabitants, but also the centuries of oppression and injustice committed against them. For Maine Audubon, it is a day we must renew and assert our commitment to […]
Creating an environmentally-friendly home
By John Grew (In this guest blog post, John Grew shares his experiences creating an environmentally-friendly home in Scarborough.) The first volunteer event that my wife Debbie and I participated in with Maine Audubon was the native plant sale at Gilsland Farm, a key element of the “Bringing Nature Home” initiative. �As Maine Audubon members, […]
Set up your own Big Sit this weekend!
This year, Maine Audubon will not be able to have a team for the Big Sit, but you can do your own! I’ll be setting up one at home and encourage you to do the same. What is a Big Sit? The event is “a semi-competitive birding event originated by the New Haven Bird Club […]
Andy’s blog: Let nature recharge your batteries this fall
September has been a month of transitions. Not only are families sorting out the routines of a new (and more complex) school year, but, with the changing weather, the day-to-day routines of wildlife are undergoing remarkable shifts as well. This fall it feels like the weather can’t make up its mind. Last week, I had […]
Birds and Buildings, Part 1: The Problem
The nation is waking up to the incredible threat that buildings pose to flying birds. Buildings are not a natural part of the environment, and humans have disguised our buildings in a number of ways to make them more deceiving, and deadly, to birds. The result is that billions of North American birds are killed […]
Final Week of 2020 Native Plants Sale!
Summer 2020 has been a difficult and unprecedented one on so many different levels.� However, we couldn’t be more proud of what we have accomplished in promoting and restoring Maine native plants, and the countless resulting benefits to wildlife and habitat throughout the state over the last four months. Huge thanks to our sponsors, supporters, […]
“Birds of Maine” book coming in November
The first comprehensive overview of Maine’s incredibly rich birdlife in more than seven decades, Birds of Maine is a detailed account of all 464 species recorded in the Pine Tree State. Written by the late Peter Vickery in cooperation with a team of leading ornithologists, this guide offers a detailed look at the state’s dynamic […]
Welcome to our new Director of Finance
Erin MacGregor-Forbes has been named Director of Finance and Administration at Maine Audubon. She was most recently the Chief Financial Officer at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, and worked previously at Allagash Brewing Company and Sterling Rope Company. A native Mainer, she is also a master beekeeper and runs Overland Apiaries, a non-migratory beekeeping operation.