View nesting seabirds or seals pupping live

6/26/2013 - See nesting puffins and Arctic terns on Seal Island, Maine live through a webcam on EXPLORE.ORG. Watch the eggs hatch and the parents raise their chicks from mid-May through the end of July. You also can watch grey seals pupping in March. SEE MORE
Lemonade for terns

Lemonade for Terns – A Child Helps Save Seabirds

8/9/2012 - We received this heartfelt letter and drawing in the mail today, along with a check: "My name is Aubrey Elmore, and I am 6 years old. On July 19th, I read in the Bangor Daily News that all 1,400 terns nesting on Metinic abandoned the island. It made me feel… SEE MORE
Atlantic puffin

Seabird Season Winding Down

7/31/2012 - Have you sailed around any of the seabird nesting islands this summer for a glimpse of the famous Atlantic puffin? Time is of essence, do not delay! We are seeing signs that summer is over for our nesting birds and the Refuge has started breaking down intern camps on Metinic… SEE MORE
Beautiful day on the water, just south of Vinalhaven

Nature in Action: Terns Caught Plunge Feeding

7/12/2012 - Biologists with the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge are trying to figure out where terns feed. While they await data being collected on nanotags (tiny coded transmitters on the backs of terns from Petit Manan Island), they followed a group of feeding terns from Seal Island on July 11.… SEE MORE
Rep. Michaud walking the board walk to the light house

On a Maine Island, Politicians and Seabirds Mix

7/6/2012 - On a recent visit out to Petit Manan, a seabird restoration colony within the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, we had an unexpected guest. Representative Mike Michaud had never before seen a puffin, despite growing up in Maine. Despite Rep. Michaud's efforts to help bring federal funding to Maine's… SEE MORE
Seal Island, part of the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Tropical Visitor At Home On Seal Island

7/3/2012 - A rare bird indeed has taken up residence on Maine's outer islands. A red-billed tropicbird, usually a West Coast and Caribbean breeder, has called Seal Island and Matinicus Rock home for the past few summers. The island interns from both seabird restoration islands, part of the Maine Coastal Islands National… SEE MORE
AMERICAN PROMISE, the floating base of the Rozalia Project, will be in Rockland June 16-17.

Unique Cleanup Program Sweeps Up the Coast

6/14/2012 - A unique and inspiring coastal cleanup program is sweeping through the Maine coast these days, and it's stopping in Rockland on June 16-17. The Rozalia Project uses a famous ocean racing yacht — American Promise, aboard which the late Dodge Morgan sailed around the world in 1986 and established the… SEE MORE

Wildlife Refuge Opens Headquarters and Visitor Center

5/16/2012 - On May 12 the new collaborative headquarters for the Friends of Maine’s Seabird Islands and the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuges opened its doors to the public. Although the exhibits are still in the development and fundraising stages, the turnout at our new facility on the Rockland waterfront was… SEE MORE

Maine’s Wildest Islands Prepare for Summer

5/14/2012 - As the summer boating season gets underway, the Friends of Maine's Seabird Islands is gearing up. First and foremost, part of our outreach involves communicating the closure of many seabird nesting islands along the coast of Maine. These islands, which belong to the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, are… SEE MORE