York County Audubon is a chapter of Maine Audubon.
Hog Island on midcoast Maine
YCAS will again be awarding a scholarship for the Educator’s Week program, July 15-20, 2018 on famed Hog Island. Check the Scholarship Programs link under the Community Involvement pull down heading above for more information. The application deadline is March 15th.
York County Audubon needs your support! YCA was founded in 1968, and for the past 55 years, has promoted a wide variety of conservation activities and initiatives to benefit thousands of people. A few years back, we realized that there was an unmet need: a program that specifically focused on young birders. So, in 2016,…
Tuesday, March 17, 7:00pm in the Mather Auditorium at the Wells Reserve: Japan in Winter: a Crane and Sea-Eagle Spectacle! Presented by Marie Jordan. Japan has several claims to fame as a travel destination, but relatively few people think of the country as a wildlife destination-in winter! Highlights of Marie’s trip included thousands of Hooded and…
SORRY, THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. Just in time for their spring arrival, Maine Audubon’s Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox will hold a two hour workshop to teach you various techniques for identifying the gems of our forest: warblers. We will look at the diversity of the family, keys for identifying each species, and even spend…
“It blows your mind. Thousands of them. They just keep rolling in.” It’s a spectacular display of sight and sound, a massive swarm of as many as 20,000 crows, a sky blotted black by their numbers, a crescendo of cawing that slowly fades to an eerie silence, night closing in. As it has for at…
As mentioned above, the audio quality on a few of the video clips did not reproduce well in the Zoom broadcast, so we’ve post those clips so that they can be fully appreciated! https://www.yorkcountyaudubon.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Video2-Albatross-Courtship.mp4
York County Audubon is pleased to be sponsoring a gull workshop with Derek Lovitch. It will be in two parts: an indoor workshop on Saturday Feb 7th at the Wells Reserve, and a Sunday morning field session in Portland. Space is limited and registration is required. Please click on the link on the calendar page…