Tidal mudflats are one of the most dynamic habitats along Maine’s coast, and their complex ecosystems demand additional study. Organisms living in the soft mud sediment sustain many species, including humans. Migrating shorebirds feed voraciously on marine macroinvertebrates in the intertidal mud, giving these small birds enough energy to make long nonstop flights across the […]

Leaders: Bob and Sandi Duchesne Cost: $60 One of our all-time favorite boat trips is back. For many years, PVC hosted late March boat rides around Isle au Haut to enjoy the large flocks of seabirds that gather there.  The island hosts the largest population of wintering harlequin ducks in the east, plus an assortment […]

Sunday, April 21, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Leaders:  Bob Milardo, Sharon Wilson Barker, and Shane Barker FREE Join us for a spring migration tour to productive birding hotspots in central Maine, with a focus on species that rest and refuel on Maine’s ponds, rivers, and lakes.  We will make multiple stops including Plymouth Pond, […]

Free pizza, cookies, and beverages starting at 6 p.m. Annual Meeting with featured speaker starting at 7 p.m. Please join us to elect chapter board members and officers, followed by a presentation from the 2023 recipient of the Inez Boyd Environmental Research Award (IBERA).  Rachel Darling, a Ph.D. candidate in Wildlife Ecology at the University […]

Leaders: Gloria Vollmers and Paul Markson Essex Woods is a delight for birders and nature photographers, offering a diversity of habitats and species along a short, easy walking trail.  Warblers, vireos, Baltimore orioles, and perhaps a black-billed cuckoo may turn up in the shrubs and forest, and a wide variety of ducks and wading birds […]

Co-sponsored by Bangor Land Trust Leaders:  Bob Milardo and Robert Ostrowski The ethereal sounds of American woodcock, hermit and wood thrushes, common nighthawks, and whip-poor-wills can be heard after sunset within the Walden Parke Preserve, a Bangor Land Trust property.  Join us for an evening walk to look and listen for whip-poor-wills and other crepuscular […]

Leaders: Gordon Russell and Jane Rosinski This will be a leisurely bird walk within the Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust property in Orland, popularly known as The Wildlands. Your trip leaders plan to scout prior to the trip to select a trail that offers the best birding opportunities; please check the weekly listserv for updates. […]

Sunday, July 28, 12:30-6:00 p.m., rain or shine Leaders: Sandi and Bob Duchesne Cost: $80 adults/$45 under 12 Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge hosts a large colony of Atlantic puffins.  Razorbills, common and Arctic terns, and common eiders also nest here, and it’s the southernmost breeding colony for the great cormorant.  Other seabirds and raptors […]

Leader:  Bob Milardo In late summer and early fall, it’s not unusual to spot transient great egrets and migrating shorebirds at Essex Woods.  We also will look for multiple species of ducks, green and great blue herons, pied-billed grebes, and songbirds in migration, or getting ready to migrate. You never know what unusual species might […]