The year is bookended with Black-capped Chickadees on a New Year's Day Schoodic Christmas Bird Count and at the end with Boreal Chickadees.
Little Big Year: Chasing Acadia's Birds, Paperback - Richard Wayne MacDonald Join field biologist Richard MacDonald on a year-long journey to document the birds of Acadia National Park and Downeast Maine. You will go out on research vessels into the Gulf of Maine to look for seabirds, hike the mountains of Acadia to observe Snowy Owls, take a night-time bicycle ride into Great Pond Mountain Wildlands to look for the rare Chuck-will's-widow, and view shorebirds from the cockpit of a sea kayak. With each bird, he relates finding the species while weaving in fun facts and stories from his 40+ years of study, birding, and travel from Newfoundland to Antarctica. Through it all, you feel as though you are right there with him.