Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

We were eager to find out what was waiting for us in the duck trap every morning. A trap full of mallards is a sight to see and we started several mornings getting completely soaked while we herded them into our catch box. An invigorating way to start the day for sure!

A collaboration of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of New England, and the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, the Maine Owl Pellet Project will inform conservation efforts by better understanding the diet of Maine's owls and the distribution and composition of the...

We often capture birds that were banded from previous years; these could have been birds banded by us previously, or birds that were banded by another permitted bird bander in a different region. Along with the approximately 400 newly banded birds at our station this year, we also recaptured 67...