Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch

Citizen Science for Wildlife-Friendly Roads

The Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch is a web-based map and database designed to record your observations of road-side and road-killed wildlife.

NEW: Endangered Species Roadwatch seeking volunteers in southern Maine.

Want to do something that is both good for you and good for Maine’s wildlife?

Maine Audubon is recruiting volunteers to take part in a special survey for endangered species along roads in southern Maine. Walk a assigned one-mile survey stretch in spring and summer, look for wildlife, and help endangered species.

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Barbara Charry (bcharry@maineaudubon.org)

"Adopt A Road" Volunteers needed for survey routes.
Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch is now recruiting observers to select roads to monitor more closely for wildlife. We are calling this research project "Adopt A Road". To sign up as an "Adopt A Road" volunteer, click here for more information.

Now there are three ways to participate in Maine Audubon Wildlife Road Watch, entering random wildlife observations from around the state, surveying a regular route of your choice for "Adopt A Road" anywhere in the state, or surveying an assigned route in York County for Endangered Species Road Watch.

Information about where wildlife attempt to cross roads, what animals are involved, on what kinds of roads are collisions frequent, and other data can help inform policy, management, and financial investment in reducing road-kill and habitat fragmentation. Maine Audubon scientists will use the data to improve our collective understanding of where wildlife attempt to cross roads and what we can do to reduce road-kill and increase safety for people and wildlife.

Start contributing your own observations:

1. Create an account to help us identify observations from specific observers.
2. Add observations by specifying what you saw, pinpointing its location on the map, and even uploading your photos (if you took any).
3. Then review your observation markers, and see where other citizen scientists are finding road-side wildlife, by browsing our online wildlife observations map.

Maine Audubon, state agencies, and researchers will use the data you share on this site in order to better understand how roads affect wildlife. Thanks for participating!

***Stop by Maine Audubon in Falmouth to pick up your Wildlife Road Watch bumpersticker!***