BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 30, 2020
By the time 2019 ended, I had seen 327 bird species in Maine during my lifetime. I resolved to find three more in 2020, boosting my state life list to 330. I failed, but came close. In early December, a mega-rarity showed up in Ogunquit, where a rock wren has been hanging around for a month in Perkins Cove. It’s only the second ever seen in Maine. Rock wrens are western birds of rocky, arid regions. They can be found in alpine and desert areas. I’ve seen them before, in the Chihuahuan desert of Texas and the foothills of Colorado. They rarely get east of the Mississippi. But this one did, and I added him to my Maine list. ~ Bob Duchesne