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Acadia Wildlife

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A non-profit wildlife rehabilitation clinic and nature center.

Acadia Wildlife Foundation is a non-profit wildlife rehabilitation clinic and Nature Center located in Bar Harbor, Maine. We treat native birds, mammals, and turtles with the goal of releasing healthy animals back to the wild.

10/26/2026

Common Loon beginning to feed itself after a head hit. This individual recovered and was released successfully.

10/20/2026

Jax our ambassdor Red Fox loves fresh leaf piles so please donate yours! A great way to help us in the fall while at the same time cleaning your yard is to collect leaves and donate them to the animals in our care! One way we make our animal enclosures feel more natural for our patients and ambassadors is by putting leaves and pine needles on the floors. We use on average 40 full trash bags of leaves every fall/ winter. If you wish to help please collect your DRY leaves and or pine needles in trash bags, they CAN NOT have been on lawns that were sprayed with any pesticides, and please remove sticks and branches, because they poke holes in the bags. You can leave any bags you collect next to the front door of the center at 49 Black Dog Rd, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609 at any time during day light hours. If you have questions feel free to call us at 207-288-4960 and thank you for your help!

10/17/2026

Tomorrow is race day at the Mount Desert Island Marathon! We are wishing the best of luck to all the participants and organizers. The MDI Marathon is not only an incredible event, it also goes on to support so many local non-profits on Mount Desert Island. A big thank you to everyone involved, for many years this event has helped save injured wildlife of Maine!

10/15/2026

Leach's Storm Petrel came ashore during the heavy rain and wind two nights ago. They are a member of the group of seabirds called pelagic (open ocean), that live way offshore and only come to ground to nest in long tunnels that they dig with tiny delicate webbed feet. One parent stays with the single chick while the other travels as far as 200 miles to pick up surface oils, krill, and tiny fish. They return at night to avoid predation as they are the smallest seabird in the world. The flighted adult calls out and the mate in the tunnel answers with two different calls that are magical and help them locate each other. One of my favorite birds, as you can tell. This one tried to hide under a canvas over a beached boat but they don't walk well and a dog caught it. It is alive this morning which is promising. I use a stomach tube to feed a oil and krill slurry every two hours. We have two species in the Gulf of Maine. This one flies like a butterfly and dips food on the wing. The second species, the Wilson's Storm Petrel breeds in the Falkland Islands and balances itself on the water with its feet, looking like its walking on water. Both are members of a large group of seabirds known as 'tubenoses' from the structure on the top of their beaks that drains salt. If in trouble from high winds, they will follow ships which can cause oiled, unwaterproofed feathers, so never release off a cruise ship if they land as a rehabilitator needs to check their feathers, likewise if you find them on a beach.

10/14/2026

WE NEED YOUR LEAVES! A great way to help us in the fall while at the same time cleaning your yard is to collect leaves and donate them to the animals in our care! One way we make our animal enclosures feel more natural for our patients and ambassadors is by putting leaves and pine needles on the floors. We use on average 40 full trash bags of leaves every fall/ winter. If you wish to help please collect your DRY leaves and or pine needles in trash bags, they CAN NOT have been on lawns that were sprayed with any pesticides, and please remove sticks and branches, because they poke holes in the bags. You can leave any bags you collect next to the front door of the center at 49 Black Dog Rd, Bar Harbor, ME, 04609 at any time during day light hours. If you have questions feel free to call us at 207-288-4960 and thank you for your help!

10/12/2026

Two of our three River Otter pups from this summer. One showed up at the entrance to our road, and the other two, brother and sister, were in a den under a summer cottage. The den pups were deserted by their mother when the human family arrived with young children and a barking dog. Although the building was quieted down, and the adults waited patiently all night, the mother did not return for her babies which is normal behavior for female otters. All three were several weeks old and still nursing. It is probable that the single one's mother was startled as she crossed the road, dropped the pup, and again did not return- another common way we receive pups. Most mother mammals will go to great lengths to retrieve their young but over years of raising otters and their relations, like mink, we have found that they do not return, probably due to an evolved risk assessment of mother's life vs. babies.

10/04/2026

Many birds have left on migration south including the Common Nighthawks. We got several of these this fall hit by cars.

09/26/2026

12 two-week-old Snapping Turtles released into the lake near where their eggs were laid last spring. There had been 35 eggs dug up from a compost pile under a large tree cutting. Many of the eggs had been damaged but the twelve hatchlings were strong, lively, and eager to enter their lake. Soon, as the fall progresses they will dig into the mud and hibernate until spring. A wonderful release!

09/23/2026

Happy Wishlist Wednesday! For tomorrow we need lots of cleaning supplies including 409, bleach spray, brushes and scratch pads, and paper towels. https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/WYFVADD9RJ6M?ref_=wl_
Amazon is not sending us the donor information anymore but we thank each and every one of you who help us so much.

Beautiful Hoary Bat on the ground and stepped on , on purpose, by a child, breaking its wing. It was sent to Maine Wildlife Rehabilitation in Orono where a colleague of our wildlife vet pinned the bone. We have high hopes that it will fly once more. Meanwhile the finder, a bat lover, was taken from classroom to classroom, by the child's principal speaking of the extreme value to people and the environment of our bats and how important it is to care for them. Hoary Bats get their name from their white flecked fur, similar to hoar frost, and normally migrate south to warmer climates instead of hibernating in caves in Maine. They have more fur than the brown bats and if they hit a cold patch they wrap their large, thickly furred tails around their bodies like little sleeping bags.

09/20/2026

Release of two juvenile Broadwing Hawks. One if these came in as a fuzzy young chick, and the other with a concussion from a road hit. Broadwings are migrating this month so keep your eyes to the sky!

Address

Bar Harbor, ME
04609

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm
Saturday	8am - 5pm
Sunday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+12072884960

Website

https://acadiawildlife.org/support/donate.html

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