Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock by Kress, Stephen W.

Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a...
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Author: Stephen W. Kress
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Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock by Kress, Stephen W.

Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

CHF 41.95

Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

CHF 41.95
Author: Stephen W. Kress
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century

Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until extirpated by hunters in the late 1800s. To right this environmental wrong, he resolved to bring puffins back to one such island--Eastern Egg Rock. Yet bringing the plan to reality meant convincing skeptics, finding resources, and inventing restoration methods at a time when many believed in "letting nature take its course."

Today, Project Puffin has restored more than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands. But even more exciting, techniques developed during the project have helped to restore rare and endangered seabirds worldwide. Further, reestablished puffins now serve as a window into the effects of global warming. The success of Dr. Kress's project offers hope that people can restore lost wildlife populations and the habitats that support them. The need for such inspiration has never been greater.

Author: Stephen W. Kress, Derrick Z. Jackson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 05/24/2016
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780300219791
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 1
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 51225 / Project Puffin: How We Brought Puffins Back to Egg Rock

About the Author
Stephen W. Kress is the National Audubon Society's Vice President for Bird Conservation and director of the Audubon Seabird Restoration Program and Hog Island Audubon Camp. Derrick Z. Jackson, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary and an accomplished photographer, is a contributing columnist at the Boston Globe. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

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