PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 4, 2023
The “incredibly rare” and highly anticipated Steller’s sea eagle has returned to Maine, according to Maine Audubon. It was found at 12:45 p.m. Saturday along the Back River. Staff naturalist Doug Hitchcox recalled the “amazing saga” of how the “incredibly rare eagle from Eastern Siberia” moved across North America in 2021, then spent the winter from Dec. 30, 2021, through March 5, 2022, around Midcoast Maine. Then it moved north spending the summer of 2022 in Newfoundland before wandering south in the fall. The last sighting had been in northeast New Brunswick in November.