BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 2, 2022
When the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife offered a Zoom presentation on owls, it caught my immediate attention. I learned there are three common owls nesting in Maine; great horned owl, barred owl and northern saw-whet owl. There are three rare ones nesting here sporadically; short-eared owl, long-eared owl and eastern screech owl. There is one rare owl that theoretically breeds here, but we’ve never found confirming evidence: boreal owl. Plus, there are three occasional winter visitors that nest far north of Maine: snowy owl, great gray owl and northern hawk-owl. ~ Bob Duchesne