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Just a few hours’ drive from us here in Maine, one of the world’s largest meetings on biodiversity is underway in Montreal. Not only is it one of the largest, with something like 20,000 participants, but it must also be one of the longest-running:...
Here we are in holiday gift-giving time again, which means that we have to remind you of three of the best possible gifts to give this season. Yes, they all have to do with birds, and they all encourage a love of birds and the outdoors that will...
A Ross’s goose was found last week in Bangor, hanging out in a cornfield with at least one snow goose. Unfortunately for us, we have not been able to carve out the time to drive up and see this rare bird, and it’s a species we’ve yet to see here in...
Are there any of you out there that remember the days when people would complain about how evening grosbeaks were eating them out of house and home? Back in the 1970s, we remember bird lovers everywhere talking about buying a hundred pounds of...
Clouds of yellow and red leaves have descended into yards and onto sidewalks these last few weeks such that our several-times-a-day dog walks are filled with the characteristic crunchy sound of dog and person swooshing through drifted leaf piles...