Your wildlife questions are answered by Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.

I want to start with a biased plug for Maine Audubon’s Birding Basics courses. Each week we cover a different topic, ranging from bird identification to picking out binoculars. Some weeks ...

It has nothing to do with our beloved state bird and everything to do with ... it makes it harder for police to identify ...

“We’ve in fact said, at the USDA, that they should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify ... no bird flu outbreaks, Cal-Maine’s egg ...

Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.Credit ... allowing scientists to identify different kinds of phytoplankton.

March 11, 2025 Update: Yesterday, Secretary Rollins said that she has decided to pull vaccines for poultry “off the table” and they are no longer part of USDA’s plan to combat bird flu. Days after she ...

In the East, they stick around in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine before undergoing ... magnolia warbler. Bird sounds courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology To identify a Nashville warbler ...

The birds can be hard to track and identify if they have not been banded ... One was attacked and killed by another bald eagle in Maine. Another returned to visit Duke farms. “Duke Farms has been very ...

When investigating a widespread and ongoing H5N1 outbreak at 45 poultry farms, the CFIA National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease team sequenced the virus, identifying ... nearly 30,000 birds and ...

But as a warming climate shortens Maine's winters, bird species once rarely seen during the colder months now hang around for ...