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There is one animal present in our greater backyard that I urge everyone to try to see at least once in the wild − the Atlantic puffin. Now's the time to find Atlantic puffins in nearby Maine ...
Project Puffin is an effort initiated in 1973 by Stephen W. Kress of the National Audubon Society to restore Atlantic puffins to nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. Eastern Egg Rock Island in Muscongus Bay , about 10 km (6 mi) from Pemaquid Point , had been occupied by nesting puffins until 1885, when the birds disappeared because of overhunting.
On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and waddling gaits — had ...
Techniques used for restoring the birds, such as playing recordings of puffin calls, were mostly effective. [2] [5] With the help of fish delivered to Eastern Egg Rock, [5] 69 percent of Maine's roseate terns were nesting there by 2004. [6] Now the island is the southern limit of puffin habitat in North America. [4]
Eight of the islands within Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge currently support seabird restoration projects. The primary focus of these projects is to re-establish breeding populations of common, Arctic, and roseate terns, Atlantic puffins, and razorbills on historic nesting islands. The combined efforts of the Refuge and our ...
The Atlantic puffin is a distinctive seabird with black and white feathers and a colorful bill. Seabirds are a “conspicuous component of Arctic biodiversity” and are “heavily affected by ...
The Atlantic puffin burrow is usually lined with material such as grass, leaves, and feathers but is occasionally unlined. The eggs of the Atlantic puffin are typically creamy white but the occasional egg is tinged lilac. Where rabbits breed, sometimes Atlantic puffins breed in rabbit burrows. Puffins form long-term pair bonds or relationships.
The nearly 4-month-old male seabird joined the zoo’s “Polar Zone” exhibit alongside 11 adult Atlantic puffins, as well as seals and penguins, after finally growing big enough to swoop into ...