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Deciding on which leader to follow is certainly occupying much of the media airspace for us humans in the U.S. at the moment and will be for months to come until the Presidential election. From the time we are young we grapple with the question of...
A watershed in the Canadian province of Manitoba almost half the size of the entire state of Maine and estimated to support more than ten million breeding birds took a significant step closer to full protected status last week. At a public ceremony...
For more than 15 years we’ve been hoping. We had said the phrase, “This is the perfect place for a short-eared owl,” so many times that it had become a kind of inside joke. Birders know about this never-ending hope. Many of the places we visit...
It was Saturday. Grocery shopping needed to be done. Prescriptions needed filling. The floors needed a vacuuming and the towels needed to be folded and put away. A major snowstorm was forecast to arrive in the evening and dump snow all day on Sunday...
Something unusual seems to be happening. Here in Maine, it started off with the discovery of the western sibling species to our familiar eastern towhee, a spotted towhee, at Fort Foster in Kittery back in November. Spotted towhees essentially occupy...