If you have been following Maine Audubon’s and other organizations’ social media (follow our Moth Week fun on Instagram!) regarding National Moth Week, you may have fallen in love with a moth or two. And back in June, Aislinn Sarnacki of the Bangor Daily News wrote an article about how to find and observe the […]
News & Notes
The 2020 Maine Annual Loon Count a great success!
Thanks to the many people who made the 2020 Loon Count a success for its 37th year! So many people work well in advance of the actual count day to make it happen. One of those is Conservation Biologist Tracy Hart, who runs the annual count. She’s been working all year to get the online […]
2020 Annual Birdseed Sale
It’s our annual bird seed sale with lowest prices of the year on all in-stock bird seed. Also, members will get 20% off on in-stock bird feeding hardware, feeders, and accessories. Pre-order online by Friday, August 28 at 4 pm. (Online sales opening soon.) Pick up at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center, Falmouth between October 16 […]
Family Fun Connections: Spiderwebs
What shape is a spider web? Orb webs, with their wheel-like spokes, are probably what most quickly comes to mind. But if you’ve walked across a dewy lawn recently, chances are you passed by the funnel-shaped web of a grass spider. These webs really stand out on misty or dewy summer mornings and they are […]
Volunteers needed to survey aquatic life in streams in the Sebago Lake area
Do you like to explore? Walk through streams? Care about water quality?� If so, we have a wonderful new opportunity for you! The Lakes Environmental Association and the Portland Water District are teaming up with Maine Audubon and the Department of Environmental Protection to recruit community scientists who can help survey large aquatic insects (macroinvertebrates) […]
Maine Audubon Statement on NECEC Project, July 2020
Since 2018, Maine Audubon has engaged with Central Maine Power’s (CMP) New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project, sharing our concerns with CMP and its parent company, Avangrid, and providing recommendations for avoiding, minimizing, and compensating for the project’s impacts on wildlife and habitats, as well as providing extensive public comment to the Maine Department […]
Family Fun Connections: A Bird Checklist for Young Birders
Just in time for summer vacation, we’ve added a new resource to our Birding in Maine page: The Maine Birds Checklist for Young Birders (pdf). This photographic checklist features forty common species and includes extra information about each bird’s behavior and diet, making it a useful tool both as a checklist and for introducing ecological […]
Elementary Connections: Food Webs
How does energy move through an ecosystem? What is a food chain or web? What different roles do plants and animals play in these interconnected webs? Let’s look at all these webs! Energy Starts with the Sun Plants and algae have the amazing ability to do photosynthesis, the process of using energy from the sun […]
Andy’s Note: Time to Listen
On June 4, we signed on to a joint statement on racial justice, written by 25 environmental organizations in Maine, which said in part: �As organizations working in Maine that recognize the environmental and conservation movements’ complicity in the systemic racism that exists today, we are working to remedy that legacy and envision a better […]