Bird Preservation

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual international event during which birders help ornithology researchers by logging the birds in their neck of the woods. This year, birders logged over 8,000 different species around the world.

On a blustery spring day, a small crowd gathers at the parking area of the Washington County Grasslands, a DEC Wildlife Management Area located on 286…

The puffin, a diminutive, penguin-like bird with a bright orange beak, is a much a part of Maine as blueberries, lobsters and lighthouses, but that was…