Name: Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
SKU: 49575182
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Author: Kress, Stephen W. ; Jackson, Derrick Z.
ISBN: 9780300219791

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Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

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Physical Book

Author

Derrick Z. Jackson

Stephen W. Kress

Publisher

Yale University Press

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8x14x2.3 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780300219791

Synopsis "Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock"

The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until extirpated by hunters in the late 1800s. To right this environmental wrong, he resolved to bring puffins back to one such island--Eastern Egg Rock. Yet bringing the plan to reality meant convincing skeptics, finding resources, and inventing restoration methods at a time when many believed in "letting nature take its course." Today, Project Puffin has restored more than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands. But even more exciting, techniques developed during the project have helped to restore rare and endangered seabirds worldwide. Further, reestablished puffins now serve as a window into the effects of global warming. The success of Dr. Kress's project offers hope that people can restore lost wildlife populations and the habitats that support them. The need for such inspiration has never been greater.

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