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MOUNT VERNON, ME - NOVEMBER22: A pair of female Pine Grosbeaks share Sunday November 22,2020 a pebble while foraging in Mt. Vernon. The large finch that breeds from Alaska through Newfoundland has emerged with several other bird species as part of an avian "Canadian invasion" this winter in Maine, according to birders across the state. Pine Siskins, Redpolls, Crossbills and Snow Buntings are also being regularly reported as part of the irruption. Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
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MOUNT VERNON, ME - NOVEMBER22: A pair of female Pine Grosbeaks share Sunday November 22,2020 a pebble while foraging in Mt. Vernon. The large finch that breeds from Alaska through Newfoundland has emerged with several other bird species as part of an avian "Canadian invasion" this winter in Maine, according to birders across the state. Pine Siskins, Redpolls, Crossbills and Snow Buntings are also being regularly reported as part of the irruption. Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Kennebec Journal
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STANDISH, ME - JULY 5: Two loons in the water at Watchic Lake in Standish. The lake is home to two nesting loon pairs and also hosts two boat races every summer. The weekend of the Memorial Day boat race an adult male loon washed up on the shore dead, with a contusion on it's back. (Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)
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Eastern Egg Rock is home to the world's first restored Atlantic Puffin colony. The 7-acre island is located in outer Muscongus Bay, 6 miles east of New Harbor.
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EASTERN EGG ROCK, ME - JUNE 11: Eastern Egg Rock is home to the world's first restored Atlantic Puffin colony. The 7-acre island located in outer Muscongus Bay, 6 miles east of New Harbor is home for 4-5 staff members of Audubon Project Puffin from mid-May through mid-August. A puffin comes to shore on Monday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
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Eastern Egg Rock is home to the world's first restored Atlantic Puffin colony.
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EASTERN EGG ROCK, ME - JUNE 11: Eastern Egg Rock is home to the world's first restored Atlantic Puffin colony. The 7-acre island located in outer Muscongus Bay, 6 miles east of New Harbor is home for 4-5 staff members of Audubon Project Puffin from mid-May through mid-August. An Arctic tern carries food in its mouth while flying around the island on Monday, June 10, 2018. (Photo by Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
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WELLS, ME - MAY 23: A piping plover forages on Wells Beach on Saturday. There are a record number of the endangered shorebirds nesting in Maine this year. Wells Beach has nine nests, with seven of those active. The Wells jetty path to the beach is closed because a plover nested right in the middle of it. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
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A flock of waterfowl take flight through sea smoke over Back Cove during single-digit weather at sunrise.
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A puffin makes its way to a burrow on Eastern Egg Rock in June 2018. (Derek Davis/Staff Photographer)
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FALMOUTH, ME - MAY 9: A gold finch perches on a branch at the Gisland Farm Audubon Center on May 9. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
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PORTLAND, ME - SEPTEMBER 20: A group of Great Egrets congregate at Back Cove in Portland on Wednesday, September 20, 2017. (Photo by Derek Davis/Staff photographer)
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FALMOUTH, ME - SEPTEMBER 18: A fork-tailed flycatcher carries lunch back to a tree at Maine Audubon. (Staff photo by Jill Brady/Staff Photographer)
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PORTLAND, ME - September 11: A seagull takes flight over abandoned pilings near Ocen Gateway on Monday morning. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
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RAYMOND, ME - JULY 15: A loon comes up out of the water while fishing for food on Crescent Lake Saturday morning. Over 850 volunteers surveyed lakes and ponds statewide for Maine Audubon to count loons and collect data for conservation efforts. (Staff photo by Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer)
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A common loon flaps its wings in the water of Third Roach Pond at the Appalachian Mountain Club new lodge, Medawisla. Medawilsa is the Abenaki word for loon.
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BIDDEFORD, ME - SEPTEMBER 19: A great egret lands in the marsh grass along Granite Point in Biddeford. (Photo by Carl D. Walsh/Staff Photographer)
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OLD ORCHARD BEACH, ME - JULY 26: People and birds walk along the beach in Old Orchard Beach as the sun begins to burn off an early morning fog on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. The fog eventually cleared, revealing a perfect beach day of sun and temperatures in the 80s. (Photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
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A puffin flies over Eastern Egg Rock in Muscongus Bay while carrying white hake in its beak. The puffins can travel up to 50 miles over the Gulf of Maine, looking for small fish to feed their chicks, who nest under large rocks on the shore of Eastern Egg Rock.
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A common loon sits Sunday on a nest along the shore of Lake Auburn.
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A bird flaps it's wings in a section of open water that can still be found at the North end of Lake Auburn on Thursday afternoon, January 21, 2021.
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A Ruby-throated hummingbird hovers at a feeder at the Pages' home in North Yarmouth.
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Several types of birds congregate in open water along Lake Shore Drive in Auburn earlier this week. "Ice Out" was officially declared Friday.
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WELLS, ME - MAY 23: A piping plover forages on Wells Beach on Saturday. There are a record number of the endangered shorebirds nesting in Maine this year. Wells Beach has nine nests, with seven of those active. The Wells jetty path to the beach is closed because a plover nested right in the middle of it. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
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A group of Barrow's goldeneye and common goldeneye birds circle above the Androscoggin River between Lewiston and Auburn Monday morning.
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HOOKED: a Bald Eagle perches from the limb of a tree between Route 9 and the Kennebec River in Randolph Tuesday June 18. State Police and Game Wardens were called to scrutinize the bird to determine if it had been injured by a car. Police decided to continue monitoring the eagle this week to determine if it may need assistance.
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An Osprey plucks an alewife from the waters of the Sebasticook River in Benton as the alewives make their annual run up river.
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A female Pine Grosbeak pits a seed while feeding on fruit with a flock of fellow Canadian finches in Readfield.
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Herring gulls have a lifespan of 30 or more years. In the late19th century, sailors on the Brenton Reef Lightship recorded a particular bird they named Gull Dick, returning every fall for over 20 years, and staying for the winter. They would feed it a breakfast of boiled pork and fish. Gull Dick preferred the boiled pork.
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A Black-capped Chickadee stretches out on a branch at the Pages' home in North Yarmouth.
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FALMOUTH, ME - JUNE 23: An American Goldfinch perches on a feeder at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
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FALMOUTH, ME - JUNE 15: A Tufted Titmouse pauses on a feeder at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
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An Eastern Bluebird takes flight with an insect in its beak at Gilsland Farm Audubon Center.
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The Memorial Bridge frames a heron soaring underneath it early on a Saturday morning on the Kennebec River in downtown Augusta. There were several people and birds trying to catch fish just after sunrise.
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GARDINER, ME - JANUARY 1: A hen Northern Cardinal picks Tuesday February 1, 2022 berries from a shrub along the banks of the Kennebec River in Gardiner. The crested song bird was foraging through the snow with a mixed flock of Chickadees and Juncoes. Staff photo by Andy Molloy/Staff Photographer)
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Photographed with a slow shutter speed which blurs its wings, a gull flies past rocks at Nubble Light in York. Although they are common, gulls are protected under the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act, making it illegal to hunt, capture or kill them. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture can issue permits for dealing with nuisance gulls.
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BIDDEFORD POOL, ME - MAY 9: A red-winged blackbird perches on a branch in Biddeford Pool on May 9. (Staff photo by Ben McCanna/Staff Photographer)
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A rare field sparrow perches on a branch at the Gisland Farm Audubon Center.
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Canada geese and mallards swim in open water on Pleasant Pond in Richmond.
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A piping plover forages along the shore of Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport. The plovers, an endangered species, have returned to Maine beaches to nest but are subject of controversy in some coastal communities.
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