Putting Androscoggin on the Map
Join us as we recount a three-year quest to demonstrate that Androscoggin County is Maine’s best-kept birding secret. We’ll share the “detective work” involving everything from wetland inventories to migration data that led us to document some 220 species, including county firsts like Barnacle Goose and Baird’s Sandpiper, as well as Maine’s first-ever Ferruginous Hawk.
Camden Martin was born and raised in the Lewiston-Auburn area. As a teenager, he had the opportunity to attend high school in Nîmes, France. Fluent in French, he later earned a degree in Environmental Protection from Cégep de Saint-Félicien in Québec. A lifelong passion for the natural world – especially mammals and birds – led him to Zambia in 2021, where he assisted his friend, Jonah Gula, in his doctoral research on the Saddle-billed Stork. He currently works at St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston.
Gary Jarvis has lived – and birded – in Androscoggin County for over a decade. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Iowa and Drexel University, and works from home conducting research on economic history for the Governor’s Woods Foundation, a Philadelphia non-profit. He enjoys avian encounters of all kinds, but has a particular fondness for shorebirds and terns.
Free and open to the public.