Schoodic Institute - Bird Ecology

Mexico: Oaxacan Adventure with Schoodic Institute - Sabrewing Nature Tours Join our Mexico Oaxacan Birding Tour to explore mangrove forests and highland trails. Spot specialties like Rose-bellied Bunting, Oaxaca Sparrow, and more.

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Mexico: Oaxacan Adventure with Schoodic Institute - Sabrewing Nature Tours Join our Mexico Oaxacan Birding Tour to explore mangrove forests and highland trails. Spot specialties like Rose-bellied Bunting, Oaxaca Sparrow, and more.

Ecuador awaits. September 2025. Several spaces remain.

Ecuador: A Tour with Schoodic Institute - Sabrewing Nature Tours Join us as we explore the beautiful Northern Andes in Ecuador. This wonderful trip will produce an incredible long bird list!

Preparation call. Saturday, Nov. 9 10 am - Noon.

Cadillac Mountain Hawk Watch Update

SeaWatch at Schoodic Point. Up to date through 16 Oct., 2024. This week Northern Gannets are on the move. "Others" include a variety of species. This week's "others" include: Parasitic (1) and Pomarine jaeger (1), Red-breasted mergansers (233), and First of the season, Greater Scaup (8). Number of species (of all birds) observed thus far = 102. Perhaps the most unusual was a Short-eared Owl earlier this week!

Pausing while foraging. Ruby-crowned kinglet on the rail trail, Belfast, Maine.

Attempting to hide in plain sight.

Support Schoodic Institute's Bird Ecology Program. Join us for a birding excursion to Ecuador!

Ecuador: A Tour with Schoodic Institute - Sabrewing Nature Tours Join us as we explore the beautiful Northern Andes in Ecuador. This wonderful trip will produce an incredible long bird list!

Hop onboard: Ecuador: September 2025
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Ecuador: A Tour with Schoodic Institute - Sabrewing Nature Tours Join us as we explore the beautiful Northern Andes in Ecuador. This wonderful trip will produce an incredible long bird list!

SeaWatch 2024 at Schoodic Point in Acadia National Park: early excitement! (Photos: Bald Eagle, Surf Scoters, Black-legged Kittiwake).

Cadillac Mountain Hawk Watch: first volunteer, Terry Weekly, remembers:

Terry Weekly worked as a hawk watch volunteer with Bryant Wood from 1997-2001.

"I am so happy that the Cadillac Mt site has continued to operate. It is a special place! I have visited numerous hawk watch sites over the years including Hawk Mt, Cape May, Derby Hill, Duluth and Corpus Christi on a 100K hawk day, but none are more satisfying than Cadillac Mt on a 400 count day. The gorgeous scenery combined with the close up looks you get of individual birds flying up at you as they travel over the peak is unsurpassed."

PS See attached picture. I’m sure you must have known Don & Joan Smith (both now deceased), Bar Harbor natives and every day visitors to Cadillac Mt during migration season. Don was known as the “Father of the Acadia Hawk Watch”. He had been watching hawks on Cadillac Mt. for years. In 1995, Park Ranger Bryant Woods decided to start a hawk watch and was wandering around the top of Cadillac to find suitable site when he spotted Don seated on a comfortable spot with his chair. Don filled him in on the particulars of the hawk migration and that became the hawk watch site. (In attached picture from 2001, I’m on left. Next is Joan Smith, Betty & Bill Albright (regular annual visitors from NJ) and Don Smith on right).