Welcome to Little Duck Island
/A fog-filled session of retrieving tags from Leach’s Storm-Petrels (and eating wild strawberries) on Little Duck Island, which is (usually) uninhabited by humans.
A fog-filled session of retrieving tags from Leach’s Storm-Petrels (and eating wild strawberries) on Little Duck Island, which is (usually) uninhabited by humans.
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            Sketching in the coastal forest with students of the Maine Archaeology Field School, taught by Dr. Bonnie Newsom. The site: a colonial homestead adjoining a Passamaquoddy shell heap. Is that a horse jaw in the pit?
            About to fledge, having handily survived their parents’ decision to nest on a light fixture inches above the main door to a human habitation
I wrote a story for Hakai Magazine about how US and Canadian herring fisheries are (and aren’t) paying overdue attention to warnings from seabirds.
Abby McBride
© Abby McBride
abbymcb@alum.mit.edu
Top photo by Otto Whitehead