SUN JOURNAL • November 5, 2023
Doug Hitchcox, the staff naturalist at Maine Audubon, said lots of birds migrate in the fall, making it one of the more fun times to be out birding. Birdcast detected 11 million birds passing over Maine on the evening of Sept. 20, he said. The website tracks nocturnal bird migration in real time. In all, Maine has 290 species of birds, according to the state’s official count, and many can be found throughout the state, while some occur only in portions of the state. Hitchcox encourages everyone to give birding a try. “I joke that if I could go out and see a bobcat or lynx every day, I’d be much more into mammals than birds. But almost anywhere you go, any time of the year, you can find a bird within minutes of looking.”