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Regular readers may know that we have had a longtime fascination with brown creepers. There is just something appealing about these little brown and white birds that quietly go about their lives, unnoticed by most of humanity. Their calls are so...
The arrival of finches from the north has always been an event that birders here in Maine and New England have looked forward to during the cold of winter. Common redpolls and the much rarer hoary redpolls, pine siskins, evening grosbeaks, pine...
This week’s column is provided from Jeff’s perspective following his trip to Matinicus Island. The Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC) on Matinicus Island reached its almost consecutive 17th year this year, having been started by yours...
Some have called it the “mountain mockingbird” or the “mockingbird of the sagebrush” but its official name is the sage thrasher. If you’ve never heard of it, don’t feel bad. It’s not a bird we would ever consider to be a “Maine bird” as its breeding...
Over this weekend, while much the world was fretting over holiday shopping, the clock ticked closer to the end of the largest and most important biodiversity negotiation in the world. It took place at COP15 in Montreal, as we wrote about in our...