Maine Audubon's Laura Minich Zitske tells us the eastern phoebe is most easily keyed out by its long, wagging tail - which ...

The name anhinga comes from the Tupi Indians in Brazil, meaning "devil bird" or "evil spirit of the woods," according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The Maine Audubon says they're expanding ...

Maine lawmakers are being asked to decide which species of chickadee is the official state bird: the black-capped chickadee or the boreal chickadee, whose head is brown. The Legislature’s 1927 ...

Almost immediately, a debate ensued if the bird was indeed an anhinga or the commonly found cormorant. However, Maine Audubon staff ... who snapped pictures of the bird and helped manage an ...

A rare bird was ... in Maine, the audubon society told several news outlets. The bird is native to Southern U.S. states, Mexico, and parts of South America. It gets its name from the Tupi Indians ...