Bird Ecology

Nature Trail sign at Acadia National Park, Maine.
December 19, 2018

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 […]

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photo of peregrine falcon flying
October 16, 2018

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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photo of monarch butterfly
October 4, 2018

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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Gull eggs labeled and ready to be incubated for an experiment.
June 12, 2018

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 […]

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One of the rarer sightings of the Schoodic Point CBC on January 1 was this Lesser Scaup (foreground) photographed by Chuck Whitney.
January 7, 2018

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 […]

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