Maine Seabirds to be in Focus at November Cape Cod Bird Club Meeting

COURTESY OF NECSC.UMASS.EDU: Keenan Yakola will be the guest speaker at the Cape Cod Bird Club's November meeting.

COURTESY OF NECSC.UMASS.EDU: Keenan Yakola will be the guest speaker at the Cape Cod Bird Club’s November meeting.

BREWSTER – This month’s meeting of the Cape Cod Bird Club features a guest speaker who studies several species of seabirds off the coast of Maine.

Keenan Yakola will present “Birding from the Edge: A rare look into the life of a seasonal biologist on the outmost island in Penobscot Bay, Maine.”

Yakola has worked as a research supervisor at Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge, which is about 22 miles off Rockland, studying nesting colonies of Atlantic Puffins, Arctic and Common Terns, Razorbills, Black Guillemots and Double Crested and Great Cormorants.

The nesting seabird colony is monitored each summer by a team of biologists and interns working for Project Puffin.

The past two summers Keenan has collected stories and pictures of the nearly 200 species observed on the island, which has restricted access and cannot be visited by the public.

Yakola is a native Cape Codder and Nauset High School graduate who interned at Wellfleet Bay Audubon Sanctuary and holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Massachusetts.

The meeting, which is free and open to the public, is Monday, November 14 at 7 p.m. at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster.

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