In a moose safari, guides take tourists out in airplanes, canoes, kayaks, pontoon boats or even floating tubes to look for moose. Coyotes and other animals are also finding food scarce, officials say. More sightings in the Skowhegan area cause Central Maine outdoors writer Dwayne Rioux to wonder. Other wildlife sightings include eastern chipmunks, wild turkey and woodchucks. Central Mainers share their wildlife sightings.
Winter is a great time of year to spot Maine wildlife.
A fresh snow cover always aids in tracking wildlife movement, along with providing a contrasting background to an animal's coat. Linking up with Maine lynx State officials are fighting a proposal to label the elusive cat as threatened. Ageless ritual finds nature's creatures battling to survive The spotted salamander leads a bizarre cast of characters in an ageless tale of death and rebirth that is staged in Maine ponds and puddles each spring. We've got sound clips of Maine frogs and toads, too. The spring peeper has in its call the sound of wilderness, and its nighttime sound celebrates all that's primitive.