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Least Tern chicks on Stratton Island, Maine pic.twitter.com/UCpGmucFY2

— Abby McBride (@sketchbiologist) July 13, 2016

I just kayaked out to Stratton Island for a one-night reunion tour, to relive my field work from this past May. Back then, the Least Tern adults had barely started to arrive for the season. Now there are already fledglings fluttering around. (These two chicks aren't quite at that stage yet...)

By the jetty

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Pine Point, Maine

Airborne Identity

California or the Yukon? You can use DNA from a single feather to find out where a migrating bird hails from, and where it stops along the way (I wrote a story about this for Living Bird Magazine).

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Wilson's Warbler, the star of this study. Drawn in 2008 for Acadia Birding Festival.