Steve KressVP for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society
Steve Kress
VP for Bird Conservation for the National Audubon Society
“Project Puffin”
4:00 p.m.
CNS 112
Department Seminar Series
Refreshments served at 3:40, 1st floor CNS foyer. Bring your mug. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Nancy Pierce at 274-3161. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible
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Also, learn how you can participate in a new Ithaca College course this summer:
BIOL 20400 or ENVS 350 ‘Maine Seabird Biology and Conservation’ .
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The National Audubon Society started Project Puffin in 1973 in an effort to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine. The restoration of puffins to Eastern Egg Rock is based on the fact that young puffins usually return to breed on the same island where they hatched. Young puffins from Great Island, Newfoundland were transplanted to Eastern Egg Rock. The young puffins were then reared in artificial sod burrows for about one month. As the young puffins reached fledging age (the time when birds leave the nest), they received leg bands so they could be recognized in the future. Because this was the first time an attempt had been made to restore a puffin colony, the outcome was unknown. Between 1973 and 1986, 954 young puffins were transplanted from Great Island to Eastern Egg Rock and 914 of these successfully fledged. A record 123 pairs of puffins nested on Eastern Egg Rock in 2010, the 36th year of the project.
The innovative methods developed for Atlantic Puffins are now used worldwide to assist rare and endangered seabirds. Several case studies are included in this presentation.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20110224134919857