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Spring/Summer 2024 - Little Sebago Lake Loonacy Sharon Young

Figure 1 - A success story - Little Sebago chick born and banded in 2020 returns to LS as adult - 2023

learn more about the species as well as providing insights into the health of the lake ecosystem. High levels of contaminants in the eggs and the birds

are indicators of contaminants in the ecosystem which could in turn be harmful to other lake wildlife and human health.

Figure 2 - Necropsy Loon DOA at Little Sebago – 2022

Figure 3 - Abandoned egg recovered at Little Sebago - 2022

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