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Nature Moments: Leaping Snow Fleas

The latest Nature Moment video from Nat Wheelwright takes a close look at a creature that can be easy to miss in winter -- the Snow Flea. What animal can jump 100 times the length of his body – without using any of his six legs? Take a walk in the snow on a sunny February day and look closely in …

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The Filming of the Shrew (VIDEO)

Staff photographer Ari van den Akker just captured this video of a Northern Short-tailed Shrew tunneling under the thistle feeder outside the Discovery Room at Gilsland Farm. She reports: These shrews are one of very few mammals that are venomous -- an adaptation that allows them to kill prey …

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Nature Moments: Birds’ Personalities

If you've watched birds, you know that different species have unique personality traits. Bowdoin professor and Maine Audubon trustee Nat Wheelwright's latest Nature Moment take a closer look at why that is. Have you noticed how different bird species have distinct personalities? Some are shy and …

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Andy’s Note: Once in a Blue Super Blood Moon

I hope that the clouds did not obscure your view of last night's Super Blue Blood Moon. If you missed out, mark your calendar for another Blue Moon on March 31st. If you manage to view both of them, consider yourself fortunate -- we won't see two blue moons in one year again until 2037. My wife …

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Trip Report: “Wings of Winter”

Fourteen of us ventured out to see some winter birds this Saturday.  We went in two seven-passenger vans with a leader in each van: Richard "Turk" Duddy and myself (thank you to Morong Falmouth for supplying a van for our use!). We saw our first exceptional bird within a few minutes of the …

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