Nature Notes: A Maine Naturalist Afield

Host/Producer: Glen Mittelhauser
This episode features sisters Tracey and Coco Faber, who spend their nights banding migrating Northern Saw-whet Owls at Petit Manan Point. They describe how mist nets and audio lures help capture these tiny, nocturnal migrants and how recent banding efforts have revealed the species to be far more abundant than once believed.
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