Sharpen your birding skills and knowledge of bird biology. Whether you are a beginner or experienced birder, you will enjoy learning about birds at the Audubon Camp of Maine. Each camp session builds an understanding of conservation biology and birding techniques through lectures and discussions about such topics as migration, nest biology, feeding adaptations and birding techniques. Laboratory specimens, slides, recorded sounds and reference library supplement field trips.
Hog Island serves as the program base of operations.
Today's team of renowned instructors builds on traditions started by the Audubon Camp's legendary first ornithologists, Roger Tory Peterson and Allan D. Cruickshank. We'll stress field identification and biology as we tour Muscongus Bay, visiting nesting colonies of Atlantic Puffin, Roseate Tern, Black Guillemot, gulls and eiders. Field trips will also visit mainland hardwood forests, freshwater and saltwater marshes and coastal beaches. Steve Kress, author of The Audubon Society Birder s Handbook, The Audubon Society Bird Garden, Bird Life , and Project Puffin serves as the program advisor as well as an instructor. Dr. Kress has been associated with the Audubon Camp on Hog Island for the past thirty years.