This is the fourth and final presentation in this year’s Maine Creatures Great & Small series, in collaboration with Midcoast Conservancy.

If you’ve been lucky enough to spend a spring or summer evening on a lake in Maine, you may have heard the mournful wail of the Common Loon. For more than three decades, Maine Audubon has worked to conserve loons through the Maine Loon Project, working with communities and partners statewide to promote healthy lakes and quality habitat for loons. As part of the project, Maine Audubon engages more than a thousand volunteers each year in tracking the state’s loon population through the Maine Annual Loon Count. Taking place on the 3rd Saturday of July each year, dedicated volunteers fan out on lakes and ponds across the state to participate in this event and contribute to our understanding of loon population trends. Falling this year on the 200th day of Maine’s bicentennial, the 2020 loon count was a momentous celebration of our state’s natural history.

Tracy Hart, Maine Audubon’s Loon Project coordinator, and David Findlay, the Regional Coordinator for the loon count on Damariscotta Lake, will talk about the state of the loon population statewide and on Damariscotta Lake, as well as their natural history, threats, and ways to get involved in loon conservation and the loon count. If you’re interested in learning about how loons have fared on Damariscotta Lake over time and what challenges they face, please join us!

Free webinar; register to get Zoom link.