Maine Audubon’s second year of participating in the World Series of Birding is now on the books, and what a year it was. Unlike our first attempt in 2020 when we were geographically restricted to small areas around each team members’ home, in 2021 the whole state was up for grabs and Team Maine …
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Migration tracking tools come to Maine Audubon
Maine Audubon is joining a massive international effort to track animal movements through automated radio telemetry, a project called the Motus Wildlife Tracking Network. It's already teaching us new things about how birds and other animals are moving through Maine. Motus, from the Latin for …
The peony gardens are ready to burst!
Maine Audubon's Gilsland Farm Peony Gardens are a famous and beloved feature of the wildlife sanctuary. When they burst into bloom in June, the fragrance fills the air and the colorful flowers announce the start of summer in Maine. Every year we wait and watch and try to guess when the first blooms …
Announcing the 2021 Native Plants Sale
We are thrilled to kick off another season of plants sales, the hallmark of Maine Audubon’s "Bringing Nature Home” program. Our hoop house and farmhouse lawns are loaded up with thousands of beautiful, healthy, and organic potted Maine native plants. Just like last year, we launch online sales at …
A Push to Protect Endangered Species and Biodiversity
It's worth reminding yourself once in a while that life may not exist anywhere else but Earth. We are incredibly lucky to be sharing this planet with the products of billions of years of evolution, in which life has wriggled itself into seemingly every nook and cranny possible. We live among birds …
Celebrate the wonder of trees in Maine Arbor Week
In 1978, the Maine legislature designated the third week of May “Arbor Week,” a result of successful lobbying led by a classroom of students from Dover-Foxcroft. They successfully made the case that the national Arbor Day holiday in April, which actually started as a movement to restore trees in …
Maine Audubon Invites Plein Air Painters to Apply for Brush with Nature
Maine Audubon is pleased to announce a very special event for this fall. In place of our annual Nature of Craft Show, we are inviting plein air painters to be inspired by nature at our sanctuaries and create art outdoors to engage visitors in the artistic process. Juried artists will paint at the …
Maine Audubon Supports Sovereignty for Tribes in Maine
Maine's Native American tribes are treated differently from the vast majority of tribes in other parts of the country. The federal government recognizes the inherent sovereignty of those tribes, meaning they are treated as a separate nation rather than as a state or municipality. Sovereign tribes …
Warbler Walks at Evergreen Cemetery, May 2021
Every spring Maine Audubon has led free bird walks at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland during the peak of bird migration, specifically as warblers are flooding into the state. These Warbler Walks have often drawn large crowds of birders hoping to catch a glimpse of some of North America's most …