Maine Audubon

Bird Land

Posted by jamiepeeps on Jun 18, 2024 in Book: Skywatcher, Chickadee!, Children's Book Illustration, Illustration, Maine Audubon, Publisher: McSea Books, Publisher: Tilbury House | 4 comments

Wherever you live, you live in Bird Land. Isn’t it glorious to hear bird song every morning and evening? I learned today that the Portland City Council unanimously passed New England’s first bird safe building ordinance, with great work on behalf of Maine Audubon’s Bird Safe initiative, a statewide collaborative to document bird strikes during peak migration. If you find a dead bird on the sidewalk, take a picture and send it to birdstrike@maineaudubon.org. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife estimate that somewhere between 388 million and 988 million birds die from building...