Project Puffin: How We Brought Puffins Back to Egg Rock

Salmansohn, Pete; Kress, Stephen W

ISBN 10: 0884481719 / ISBN 13: 9780884481713

Published by Tilbury House, 2003

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Seller Inventory # 0884481719-4-33240929

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Project Puffin: How We Brought Puffins Back to Egg Rock
• Publisher: Tilbury House
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884481719
• ISBN 13: 9780884481713
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

This remarkable book chronicles the efforts of biologist Steven Kress to rejuvenate a once-flourishing puffin colony on Egg Rock, an island off the Maine coast, with puffin chicks from Newfoundland. With their large, colorful beaks, their upright posture, and their big, dark eyes, it's easy to see why puffins are popular all over the world. But for the past hundred years, puffins along the coast of Maine have been threatened with local extinction. Biologist Stephen Kress decided to try to bring puffins back to Maine with an experiment that had never been attempted before. Stunning color photographs on every page capture each step of this wildlife success story. As you learn about The Puffin Project, you'll also learn all about puffins how they are so wonderfully adapted to their ocean environment, how they catch fish, socialize, nest in burrows, and raise their young.

About the Authors

Pete Salmansohn is an educator for Audubon, was named Maine's Environmental Educator of the Year in 1998 and in 2001 received a Visionary Award from the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment. Pete has led hundreds of public boat cruises to see puffins on Eastern Egg Rock, Maine.

Stephen W. Kress contributed to nature guides from Golden Guides and St. Martin's Press, and is Audubon's Vice-president for bird conservation and director of Audubon's Seabird Restoration Project.