Acadia Senior College

Instructor

Michael Good

Michael Good has over 35 years of experience studying the birds of North America and brings a wealth of knowledge about Neotropical migrants and the avifauna of the Eastern United States. He has a MS from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and a BA from Earlham College. While at Utrecht University he had the opportunity to diversify his knowledge of birds and study them throughout Europe. Michael is the founder of the Acadia Birding Festival, now in its 24th year, and is the President of Down East Nature Tours in Bar Harbor, a bird-watching and nature tour company started in 1993 out of concern for public Ecology-based education.

Michael is a Registered Maine Guide, a guide for Naturalist Journeys based in Portal, AZ, the founder and one of six participating organizations developing the Penobscot Watershed Eco Center in Bar Harbor, Maine which focuses on river and stream restoration and the importance of sea-run fish for a healthy Gulf of Maine, and the founder of the Warblers and Wildflowers Festival (1998-2007). 

Since 2002, Michael has been a birding diplomat in Cuba which is vitally linked to Mount Desert Island through the breeding birds in Maine who winter or stopover. He is currently one of the top eBird contributors in Cuba and Hancock County, Maine.

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