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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

Audubon researchers say seabirds across the state successfully raised chicks at double the rate of last year.

Wed, 06/02/2021 - 7:45am In a delightful, easy-to-read style, the author, Steve Kress, makes the reader feel as though they are having a conversation with Steve himself. Ironically, the authors first met Steve Kress, not in Maine, but 500 miles away in land-locked Ithaca, New York, when we were students at Cornell University. Courtesy of Jeff and Allison Wells. Steve Kress came to Maine to teach at the famous Hog Island Audubon Camp in Bremen in 1969, when we were just toddlers. He has been working to restore and manage seabird populations in the state ever since then—for more tha...

Read Article   FALMOUTH — Western Maine Audubon is presenting a free online webinar for the general public on Wednesday, April 14th at 7:00 pm. The webinar is titled “Saving Seabirds: New Lessons from Puffins,” with Dr. Stephen Kress. About one third of all seabird species worldwide are now globally threatened because of the effects of invasive predatory mammals, marine pollution, coastal development, and climate change. Against this grim background, Dr. Kress’s presentation about the restoration of Maine seabirds offers hope and inspiration that people have the capacity to help bri...