Tag: Maine

Both social and environmental factors affect the number of seals reported as stranded on the beaches of the Gulf of Maine. “By studying these marine mammals, we can understand something...

Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration say avian flu is responsible for an unusually high number of seal deaths along the coast of Maine. The USDA’s Animal and...

Moose in rural Maine are experiencing a record high death rate due to a massive tick infestation. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife says that after collaring 70...

On Groundhog Day, all eyes are on one particular groundhog. But groundhogs, it seems, are not so solitary. Researching groundhogs in Maine, Christine Maher, a behavioral ecologist at the University...

Porcupines in Maine are contracting a deadly virus that wildlife experts say could pose a threat to the population. The Bangor Daily News reports that at least three porcupines (Erethizon...

Maine is conducting its first-ever statewide survey of wintering birds. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is updating its Maine Bird Atlas, a citizen science project that tracks...

A “big night” only happens a couple of times a year, and conditions have to be just right. It has to be springtime, when the weather has risen above 45...

As beaches reopen to the public, piping plovers are also returning. In Maine, they’re having a record year, continuing a steady upswing. Maine Audubon reports seeing 100 pairs and 61...

L.S. Quackenbush made a living guiding hunters in northern Maine in the 1940s and ’50s, but the meticulous journals he kept are telling biologists something about wildlife in the region...

Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) off the coast of Maine are on pace to set a record number of breeding pairs. National Audubon Society scientist Stephen Kress tells the Associated Press...