BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 13, 2021
I’ve been roaming lately, exploring as a volunteer for the Maine Bird Atlas, a five-year project directed by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The initiative primarily seeks to map the summer range of Maine’s breeding birds, but there is a winter component. Winter surveys will help ornithologists determine how Maine’s year-round resident species and winter visitors use the state. Atlas data may indicate what habitat resources are important, what factors influence annual variability and whether the winter range of birds is changing as much as the summer ranges are over time. ~ Bob Duchesne