Winter bird numbers are declining rapidly in Acadia National Park, study shows

MAINE PUBLIC • December 30, 2022

Winter bird numbers are declining rapidly in and around Acadia National Park. That’s the takeaway from new research published Friday. The paper published in Northeastern Naturalist analyzes 50 years of data from Christmas bird counts on Mount Desert Island and the Schoodic Peninsula. The authors found that overall bird numbers have declined by 43% since 1971.