by Magpie | Apr 17, 2011 | Atlantic Puffin, Puffin Nests, Puffins
On Ramsey Island, they are trying something a little quirky to lure puffins back. They have placed hundreds of puffin decoys to trick the sea clowns to the island. If they work, the puffins will find burrows and nests built just for them by these puffin...
by Puffling | Jan 12, 2011 | Puffin Conservation
This event is being held at the Carlisle Visitor Center in LaGrange, Ohio this Saturday, January 12th 2011. This event is free but space is limited. Here is the description from the website, Humans have devastated seabird colonies by excessive hunting and by...
by Puffinpalooza | May 30, 2010 | Puffins
In the past 30 years, the tufted puffins populations along the Oregon coast have dramatically decreased from 5,000 to just a few hundred. This is such a drastic decline in population and the reasons are varied and uncertain. Predatory birds, climate change,...
by Puffling | May 4, 2009 | Atlantic Puffin, Puffin Kissing, Puffin Research, Puffins in history
Hunted to extinction in state, they’re thriving thanks to human help Puffins, which resemble half-pint penguins except that they can fly, were heavily hunted along the Maine coast for their meat and feathers, and by 1901 only one pair remained, researchers said....
