The bird checklist for Maine currently stands at 475 species which includes resident birds who grace us with their presence all the year, like downy woodpeckers, American crows and black-capped ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Sept. 10, Maine Audubon ran its annual “pelagic trip” out of Bar ...

Researchers in 2022 conducting a three-year study of the birds that inhabit 300 different sites across Maine's North Woods. Amid the bleak reports about a precipitous loss in numbers and types of ...

York County Audubon is successfully increasing the population of the purple martin bird breed in Maine. There are only nine locations in Maine where purple martins nest. The Mousam River Estuary in ...

We also added a new species to the Maine Bird List. A northern lapwing – a Eurasian plover – spent the latter part of 2022 in Kennebunkport and continued into 2023 for a great start for our ...

Maine’s piping plovers are having their best year on record according to the latest census of the endangered shore birds.

Conservation efforts to protect piping plovers on the state's beaches has led to a record year for nesting pairs.

Birding: Three changes to North American checklist affect Maine birds The decisions combined the common redpoll and hairy redpoll, split up the barn owl into three species, and changed grammar ...

The State of the Birds 2022 project found that 10 of the 15 grassland birds across North America are showing significant declines. Five of these are classified as “Tipping Point” species.

Out-of-Place ‘Devil Bird’ Wows Spectators in Maine, ... In 2018, a great black hawk showed up in Biddeford, marking just the second known U.S. sighting of the species, ...