Bird Ecology
![In this posed photo, seven technicians and interns standing together](https://schoodicinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019seasonals-600x320.jpeg)
The 2019 field season has begun for staff, interns, and visiting researchers
Every summer, Schoodic Institute hosts a number of students, technicians, and visiting scientists assisting with environmental monitoring and conducting research […]
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Schoodic by Sea Benefit Cruise
Join us on July 21 for Schoodic by Sea and experience the waters of Frenchman Bay and the Schoodic Peninsula […]
![photo of waves crashing on maine's rocky shore](https://schoodicinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_1540-768x768-600x320.jpg)
Fifty Years of Counting Birds on New Year’s Day
By Catherine Schmitt, Science Communications Specialist Two-thousand nineteen dawned gray and windy, after an overnight storm of snow, sleet and […]
![Nature Trail sign at Acadia National Park, Maine.](https://schoodicinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-500240201-600x320.jpg)
A Successful Season for the Downeast Phenology Trail
By Libby Orcutt, Senior Field Tech The conclusion of the 2018 season marked the end of the third year for the […]
![photo of peregrine falcon flying](https://schoodicinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/merl-2-1-768x433-600x320.jpg)
Guest Blog: Migration Watch from Schoodic Point
Guest Blog by Earl Johnson Now I’ve never been exactly what you’d call a morning person, but five days a […]
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The Fall Season at Acadia: When Birds, Fruit, and Insects Join Together in a Splendor of Biodiversity
The fall season is a busy one on the coast of Maine. Birds are migrating through on their way south […]
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Guest Blog: Nicole Snyder, North Dakota State University
Schoodic Institute is pleased to share a series of posts by Nicole Snyder, Zoology Masters Student at North Dakota State […]
![One of the rarer sightings of the Schoodic Point CBC on January 1 was this Lesser Scaup (foreground) photographed by Chuck Whitney.](https://schoodicinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/grsc1web-768x513-600x320.jpg)
Schoodic Point Christmas Bird Count
The 118th annual Christmas Bird Count period, a worldwide citizen science program orchestrated by Audubon over 100 years ago, is […]