Citizen Science

Lend a Hand to Protect Wildlife

Providing biologists and resource managers with a mountain of data, some citizens count loons, songbirds, or horseshoe crabs, while others record the breeding calls of frogs and toads, and hundreds more test waters from our ocean, lakes, and vernal - or small woodland - pools.

Efforts by citizen scientists are making a major difference. "Volunteers are helping us collect information from across the state that we simply do not have the staff or resources to get ourselves," says Sally Stockwell, Director of Conservation for Maine Audubon. Other project directors agree.

By relying on volunteer researchers, professionals are able to track a particular species or habitat over time and begin to address more long-term conservation issues.

Volunteers are Needed!

• Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch
  The Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch is a web-based map and database designed to record your observations of road-side and road-killed wildlife.
  
  
• Breeding Bird Survey
  
  
• Loon Mortalilty Study
  Maine Audubon is assisting Tufts University with their work on loon mortality. If you find a dead loon please contact Susan Gallo at Maine Audubon, (781-6180 ext. 216). She’ll make arrangements with you for storing the loon and for shipping it to Tufts University.
  
  
• Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET)

SEANET is a citizen science program that brings together researchers and citizen scientists in a long-term collaborative effort to identify and diminish threats to marine birds.