Come hear our 2019 L.L.Bean/Maine Audubon Freeport Birding festival key note speaker Laura Erickson. Laura was the 2014 recipient of the American Birding Association’s prestigious Roger Tory Peterson Award, Laura Erickson has been a scientist, teacher, writer, wildlife rehabilitator, professional blogger, public speaker, photographer, and Science Editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She’s written eleven books about birds. Since 1986 she has been producing the long-running “For the Birds” radio program for many public radio stations and the program is podcast on iTunes.