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You searched for: Subject: NatureSubject: AnimalsSubject: Birds
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Black-backed Gull Fledgling
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • Maine, MDI
Black-backed Gull Fledgling
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
4 X 4 black and white photograph taken from above of small nestling in leaves, may be on ground. Bird still has down on head and back and small dark stripes on wings. Paper attatched to back, “ The great black-backed gull fledglings remained motionless even when the burdock leaves under which they were hiding were turned back exposing them to view.”
Bird Feeding Young
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Sullivan, Maurice
  • 1960s
  • Maine, MDI
Bird Feeding Young
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
4 X 4 black and white closeup photograph of small bird perched in a pine tree, feeding three small baby birds in nest. Nest is in lower right corner of photo. Feeding bird has spoted breast and large black eye which is facing to left of photo. Writing on back,” Photo by Maurice Sullivan, Courtesy ANP.”
Cormorant Eggs in a Nest
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
  • Maine, MDI
Cormorant Eggs in a Nest
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
5 X 5 black and white close up photograph of a of nest with three Cormorant eggs in middle. Nest is made of twigs with a few feathers intertwined on the left side. Paper on back, “ The eggs are a dull grayish-green and encrusted with a coarse lime-like substance.”
Seagull
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • Maine, MDI
Seagull
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
5 X 7 black and white photograph of a white seagull in middle of picture standing on a granite rock. Horizontal format. Seagull is in profile facing right. Dark line of sea and horizon just bellow top of granite rock. Writting on back: “ Maine Native”
Cormorants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
  • Maine
Cormorants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
4 X 6 black and white photograph of many cormorant birds among twigs and branches. Large out of focus bird in foreground facing camera with puffed up throat. Many silhouettes of birds along horizon line and birds in air in upper left side of photo.
Young Cormorant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
  • Maine
Young Cormorant
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
5 X 5.5 black and white close up photograph of a baby cormorant. Black bird with white throat. Bird is looking up and facing the camera, beak slightly open. Surrounded by twigs and branches. Paper on back, “ Even babies too small to retreat tried to protect themselves with a horrendous bluff. Swelling up the naked orangish colored pouch beneath the chin, they clicked their bills rapidly at the intruders.”
Nesting Cormorants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
  • Maine
Nesting Cormorants
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
5 X 6 black and white photograph of a field of baby cormorant birds. Black birds dotted among nests of white twigs and grasses. Mountains of MDI in background. One bird in flight toward right hand side of mountain. Paper on back, “ the nests were so closely placed that from a distance it looked as if you couldn’t have laid a pencil between them.”
Gulls
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1960s
  • Maine
Gulls
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
4 X 4 black and white photograph. Two Birds in nest. Young, black, without feathers and white throats. First bird is looking up and straight at camera, second bird is in profile facing to the right of photo. They are in a nest of white twigs. Writing on back, “ May 5, Gulls, deB Croff, 1, reb LaRue Spiker, Southwest Harbor.” Paper attatched to back, “ When hatched the nestlings are naked but they soon develop a coarse black down over the rough ashy-black skin.” The LaRue Spiker Collection [show more]
Pelicans
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Image, Photograph, Black-and-White Photograph
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Photo Courtesy Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commision.
  • 1960s
  • Florida
Pelicans
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Pelican in upper center of photograph with two birds in fight on either side of Pelican. Bare tree trunks and branches along bottom half of photo with other birds perched among branches. Sky with some clouds in background. Paper attached to back, “Mike thought the pelican was an odd bird. It also looked sad. (Photo courtesy Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission.)”
Nelson, A.L. to Spiker, LaRue
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Environment
  • 7/16/1959
Nelson, A.L. to Spiker, LaRue
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter to LaRue Spiker from A.L. Nelson, director of the Patuxent Wildlife Refuge in reference to Spiker’s article on the Refuge.
Dale, Fred H. to Spiker, LaRue
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Document, Correspondence, Letter
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Environment
  • 6/24/1959
Dale, Fred H. to Spiker, LaRue
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Letter to LaRue Spiker from Fred H. Dale in reference to his approval of her article on Patuxent Wildlife Reefuge. With Spiker’s letter to Dr. John L. Buckley in refernece to article on Patuxent Wildlife Refuge.
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Tyson, Carroll S. and James Bond.
  • 1941.
Birds of Mt. Desert Island Acadia National Park.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Natural History
  • Bond, James
  • 1969
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Indicate the habitats of all the birds that breed on or near MDI during the past fifty years. Ian Fleming named his James Bond after the well known ornithologist who summered in Pretty Marsh. (description added by AC 2011)
Bird Stories for Little People
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Children
  • Other, Fiction
  • N/A
Bird Stories for Little People
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Stories and poems with many illustrations Edward C. Remick written on 1st page
Native Birds of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Book
  • Nature
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Long, Ralph H.
  • 1987
Description:
Almost 150 native species of birds reside on Mount Desert and surrounding Islands; this book is a guide to those birds here from June to August of the year. It indicates good places to view these birds
Cordelia Stanwood
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Nature, Animals
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
Cordelia Stanwood
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Cordelia Stanwood by LaRue Spiker. 4 pages.
Dennysville Wildlife Refuge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Other, Environment
  • Other, Women's History
  • Spiker, LaRue
Dennysville Wildlife Refuge
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Draft of article by LaRue Spiker for unknown publication. No Date. Dennysville Wildlife Refuge by LaRue Spiker. 4 page. Previously accessioned as **1178, Object Id **1178, 013.FIC.30.26
Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Anna Stunkel
  • 2012
  • Mount Desert Island
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Description:
Warbler Sightings on MDI from 1993-2011. Source data from Michael Good via EBird
Coastal Marine Life History of Mount Desert Island 1903-2021
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Reese Armstrong
  • 2021
  • Mount Desert Island
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Description:
Mount Desert Island, located off the east coast of Maine, is completely surrounded by intertidal environments. Throughout the 1900s, data was collected and recorded in notebooks regarding intertidal life by numerous researchers, followed by entry into a spreadsheet by Michael Hays, a citizen scientist who worked with the MDIBL (Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory). In present day, these data can be put into a map thanks to ArcGIS Pro. These data includes large amounts of information regarding marine life around the coastal environments of MDI, such as species common and Latin names, locations observed (where on the island along with Lat. and Long.), observation year, along with some brief notes about each observation. [show more]
Landscape of Change
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • 2021
  • Mount Desert Island
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Landscape of Change
College of the Atlantic
Description:
Exploring the Past to Build a Resilient Future To understand how climate change is affecting Mount Desert Island we need to look to the past. Our ancestors documented the natural world around them in stories, reports, journals, diaries, and letters, which are cared for in the collections of history museums and libraries. Increasingly, scientists are pulling observations and data from historic records to get a clearer picture of the natural world of the past to understand how the present is changing. [show more]
Maine Oyster Trail Pilot Project, Damariscotta River
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • COA GIS Laboratory
  • 2016
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Description:
A Map showing land use, waterfront access, and other factors important to Oyster aquiculture.
A Predictive Model for Common Loon Productivity on Mount Desert Island
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Karen Hussey
  • 2006
  • Mount Desert Island
Description:
Based on Aquatic Parameters, Nest Site Suitability, Nursery Cove Availability, and Human Use.
Distribution of Four Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Families
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Jillian Gall
  • 2012
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Description:
Distribution of Four Ground-Dwelling Arthropod Families in Traps Across Pine Hill and Settlement Quarry, Deer Isle, Maine
Finding Travel Distances of Snakes to Islands on the Coast of Maine
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Robin Van Dyke
  • 2010
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Description:
These maps show attempts to find the shortest distances across the water makes would have to travel from the mainland to various islands.
Nest Site Selection of the Black Guillemot on Great Duck island
College of the Atlantic
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
  • Meaghan Lyon
  • 2013
  • Maine
  • In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Description:
Nesting sites along the rocky berm of Great Duck Island.