We’ve officially reached the end of Bird Safe Maine’s Spring 2023 collision monitoring season, our sixth season of monitoring for collisions around Portland. This season our team saw its greatest number of volunteers monitoring to date: 45 volunteers contributed to monitoring over the course of two …
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Good News for Wildlife in Augusta!
The First Session of the 131st Maine Legislature is still in full swing, with hundreds of bills still left to be decided. We'll keep you updated on all the wildlife-related bills, but we wanted to let you know about some good news about a pair of bills we've been working hard on. SUCCESS! …
New Katahdin Woods and Waters NM Contact Station is Beautiful — and Bird Safe
Last week, our friends at Friends of Katahdin Woods and Waters announced a campaign to build a new contact station to welcome visitors to Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. The Tekαkαpimək Contact Station, a name translated from the Penobscot language to mean “as far as one can see” and is …
Bird/Glass Collision Project Wraps Fall 2021 Season with Record Numbers
Every morning between September 7 and October 31, 2021, more than 20 volunteers woke up early to hit the streets of Portland to search for birds that collided with glass windows. This monitoring program began just a year ago, during the fall of 2020, and so we were able to compare seasonal data for …
Maine College of Art Students Tackle Bird Safe Buildings
Maine Audubon and the Maine College of Art (MECA) have partnered for several years on a class called Mathematical Enterprise, where students learn to develop grant proposals and present their ideas to simulated grant panels. Maine Audubon presents the students with a topic, and the students develop …