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Atlantic puffins, a unique bird species found on remote islands off the coast of Maine, have rebounded this year after a disastrous 2021. Despite warming waters reducing the availability of fish for the birds to feed their chicks, the abundance of sand lance fish has allowed the puffins to thrive.
There are now as many as 3,000 Maine puffins, and their population is stable, according to researchers monitoring them.
Maine’s population of puffins has marked its second consecutive rebound year following a catastrophic 2021 where climate change destroyed their resource of food.
EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine (AP) — On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills an…
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