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  • Great Duck Island
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  • 2020s
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2390
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8ce6941d13fe4a679b793f2155573e48
Description:
Great Duck Island (GDI) is a 91-hectare island lying 13 kilometers south of Mount Desert Island in the Gulf of Maine. GDI has a long history of human occupation, and has been farmed, grazed, and lived upon since the early 19th century. Today, approximately 85 hectares of the island are co-owned by TNC and the state of Maine and has been managed as a preserve since 1985. There is a small private inholding on the north end of the island, and the remaining five hectares are owned by the College of the Atlantic (COA). COA manages the Alice Eno Field Station out of the light station on the south end of the island, where students have conducted regular research on the ecology of the island since 1999 (Anderson 2018) [show more]
2379
  • Map
  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Interpreting the Songbirds of Great Duck Island, Maine
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ef89019fa2624ab5903813387c49fe19
Description:
Songbirds use islands for breeding and migrating. Great Duck Island is located 10 miles from Mount Desert Island, Maine; it is about 200 acres large and consists of a variety of habitat types.
2361
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  • Nature, Animals, Birds
Leach's Storm-Petrel Distribution on Great Duck Island
  • https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/8ce6941d13fe4a679b793f2155573e48
Description:
Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) are Great Duck Island's most cryptic and most populous breeding seabird.