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The 50th anniversary of Project Puffin has just ended, with researchers fully realizing how their quest has morphed from saving one bird to playing a part in saving the planet. Its purpose in 1973 was simply to return puffins to islands off the...

Despite enormous challenges from climate change, the fledgling seabirds had their second consecutive rebound year.

This second consecutive rebound year is welcome news, after 90 percent of nesting puffins failed to raise a single chick in 2021 while.

The 50th anniversary of Project Puffin has just ended, with researchers fully realizing how their quest has morphed from saving one bird to playing a part in saving the planet. Its purpose in 1973 was simply to return puffins to islands off the...

Puffins were successfully restored to the Gulf of Maine 50 years ago, but the seabirds face new and daunting challenges from climate change.

In 1973 a young biologist hatched a plan to bring a charismatic seabird back to Maine. It was the start of a five-decade scientific adventure that would ultimately revolutionize seabird restoration.

Though Eastern Egg Rock is protected from humans, for three months during nesting season, four researchers live and work to care for the puffin population.

An immersive exhibit in Maine transports viewers to Eastern Egg Rock, where Project Puffin began.

A front row seat to the world's first restored Atlantic Puffin colony awaits on Cap’n Fish’s Puffin Cruise . Take the 2.5-hour trip aboard the Pink Lady II to Eastern Egg Rock to see Maine’s iconic cuties. Narration by a naturalist from...

Steve Kress, PhD ’75, looks back on a 50-year effort to restore the ‘clowns of the sea’ to their breeding grounds off the Maine coast