Trip Leaders:  Bob and Sandi Duchesne Acadia National Park is truly a four-season delight, yet many Mainers have never experienced Acadia during the quieter winter months.  For anyone with an interest in birding, it can be a magical time of year. Most of our breeding songbirds will not return until April or May, but they […]

Friday, March 1, 7 p.m. Hybrid Zoom/in-person at FPAC; Pre-register for Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwud-urrD0oHdD69kC9Nasn3Yb2K1HUF1W3 Spring migration will soon begin. Whether you are new to birding or an experienced observer, now is the time to brush up on your field identification skills and practice new ones. Experts use visual clues such as size, shape, color, and field […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]