Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the success of Project Puffin, which worked to restore puffins to Eastern Egg ...
ST GEORGE, Maine — Maine has a puffin population thanks to one determined researcher who hatched a plan more than 50 years ago. His idea was to take newly hatched puffins—also known as pufflings—from ...
Every summer, a handful of interns and research assistants are selected from hundreds of applicants to camp in primitive conditions on a tiny, treeless island several miles off Maine's coast. Their ...
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. It is charismatic, beloved by everyone and an indicator of the ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Two high-definition cameras began streaming live video Wednesday of clown-like Atlantic puffins waddling, preening and nesting on a remote Maine island. The National Audubon ...
Rocky, windswept Eastern Egg Rock, about 6 miles off the coast of Maine, was once a haven for a hugely diverse bird population. But in the 1800s, fishermen decimated the birds' ranks — for food and ...