Celeste Flahaven looks through a scope while on Seal Island, Maine.

Celeste Flahaven

2023 Communications and Outreach Assistant, Seabird Institute

Having lived and worked as a farmer in several states in the Northeast and the South, Celeste has developed an appreciation for the ecology of many places. In the summer of 2023, she worked for National Audubon’s Seabird Institute in midcoast Maine where she wrote about the osprey and seabird live cams on Hog Island and Seal Island, respectively.

Celeste graduated with a B.A. in Literature from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Articles by Celeste Flahaven

A Razorbill stands on rocks with fish in its beak.
A Spectacle of Life on Seal Island
September 11, 2023 — Seabirds were once extirpated from the Gulf of Maine's Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge. Today, thanks in part to Audubon’s Seabird Institute, it's the site of several breeding seabird colonies.