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A walk with the Maine Young Birders Club

by Jeremy Cluchey

Birds, Gilsland Farm, Habitat Magazine, News & Notes · February 26, 2018

Last November,�Maine Audubon staff joined the Maine Young Birders Club for a nature walk at Gilsland Farm. This became the basis for the feature story in our Spring 2018 issue of Habitat magazine (which you can receive each quarter by becoming a member!).

Photographs by Ariana van den Akker.

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