Re: [Maine-birds] Acadia Birding Festival ended today

Hello Craig,

 

I wanted to thank you for taking the time to thank and recognize  Becky Marvil and the incredible job she did on the

14th Acadia Birding Festival May 31 to June 3.   Becky has been invaluable in helping Acadia Birding Festival transition into the Digital age and helping to take ABF in a positive and cutting edge  direction.

 

Becky is  also a valuable part of the Acadia Birding Festival TEAM that includes all of the birding guides, some of them like yourself, who have been involved for many ABF and Warblers and Wildflowers. She has continuing the important relationship I started with Pete Dunne and Cape May Bird Observatory in 2008 including my passion for photography and a wonderful relationship with Kevin Karlson and Avian Photography.

 

Acadia Birding Festival is an  incredible Team of people that make this complicated festival run smoothly as it has for the past 13 years.  Becky has raised the Bar and we are all grateful for the serious effort that made this event Historical and unique.  Lori Corbani, ABF treasurer, plays an equally important role making sure that our weekend is financially sound and coordinated. Lori really plays a behind the scene role and deserves to be recognized. There is a rich history of Birding on Mount Desert Island which the Acadia Birding Festival Team, the Participants and the Mount Desert Island community bring to life each year and have since 1997 when the first program was written.   The Birds are the other important group in this passion play. We all come together to celebrate this miracle of international migration and life.  The real hero's in this story are  the birds that we can see in the plethora of optical lenses we all carry with us.    

 

The 2012 Acadia Birding festival  was an historic ornithological event encompassing 30 amazing Birding Guides, a dedicated Pelagic Birding Trip aboard the Friendship V, a Boreal Bird trip and 3 1/2 days of intense birding all recorded and scientifically available through eBird.  Thanks to Marshal Iliff and the eBird team from Cornell and National Audubon,  we recorded  approximately 132 species of Birds, 11,338 individual birds recorded at 93 separate locations surveyed over 3 1/2 days.   Acadia Birding Festival is the best Birding Festival in Maine and perhaps the country thanks to Becky and the Acadia Birding Festival Team and Participants.   

 

The Acadia Birding Festival team is pulling together the data and tying up all the complicated loose ends at the end of a festival like ABF.  The final report will be out soon  with a complete list of sponsors who are also the life's blood of Acadia Birding Festival.      All Guides..... PLEASE  RECORD and  SHARE YOUR EBIRD REPORTS FROM ABF AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.  

 

Next Years dates are May 30 to June 2 when we can once again celebrate the Birds of the Gulf of Maine. 

 

I personally would like to thank all of you for your dedication to Ornithology in Maine and making this world a better place for Birds and Humans to live.    My deepest thanks and respect  to you all.   

 

Sincerely,

 

Michael

 

Michael J. Good, MS
President Down East Nature Tours
Founder and Director 14th Acadia Birding Festival, May 31-June 3, 2012
Co-founder Penobscot Watershed Eco Center
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Bar Harbor, Maine 04609
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From: Craig Kesselheim

Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 8:36 PM

To: Maine Birders Listserv

Subject: [Maine-birds] Acadia Birding Festival ended today

 

Hi all -- I just want to give a shout-out to Becky Marvil, who is the primary reason that Acadia Birding Festival on MDI is ever more successful each year. She is the prime motivator, tireless worker (months ahead of time) and engine behind every element of this popular weekend, and brings no attention to herself in that role.

ABF draws folks from all over Maine and the US, and generates a notable economic footprint for many businesses on MDI. Becky is the hustle behind recruiting the big-name birders who speak and guide walks, organizing the Maine-based army of tour leaders, creating the program, overseeing the logistics, coordinating the amazing food, and making camaraderie the thing that everybody else can focus on. Everything that works like a charm over this easy-going but very complicated celebration of birds and birding has her fingerprints on it.

Thanks Becky.

Craig
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