MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • April 24, 2022
The Steller’s sea eagle that visited us here in Maine for over two months has moved on to the north shore of Nova Scotia. Using all the eBird records of this phenomenal bird, I’ve been having some fun with the numbers. I summed all the eBird records and determined that 1,024 eBirders got to see the Steller’s sea eagle (a life bird for most everyone, I’m sure). However, this total is an underestimate. There are a significant number of serious birders who do not use eBird. It would have been fun to determine how many of the birders who saw the Georgetown sea eagle came from out of state. ~ Herb Wilson