Project Puffin

Puffin Newborn

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Puffins had not lived in Maine for over 100 years. A group of scientists and students studied why and found that people killed the birds and eat their eggs for food. In the early 1970's the scientists, with the help of the Canadian Wildlife Service, collected just hatched puffin eggs and took them to Maine to start a new colony .

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Dr. Stephen Kress studied and learned all about puffins. Puffins need places where they can build nests away from predators. Do you know why?

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Puffins are very social, they like to live with many other puffins. Think about your own community, are there many people like you where you live?

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Puffins will almost always return to nest on the same island where they grew up. When you are an adult do you think you would want to live in the same place you live now? Why or why not?

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