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Are Atlantic Puffins in Trouble?

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” Alan Tilmouth reported in these pages a few months ago that due to extreme weather conditions, Atlantic Puffins and other seabirds were washing up on the shores of Great Britain. That is, warmer oceans are changing fish populations, with butterfish beginning to supplant the herring that Puffins usually feed their young.

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Calling All Birders: Come To Hog Island!

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The first time I saw a puffin, it was a revelation. Soon after our late afternoon arrival we met up with my friend Pete Salmonsohn, Education Coordinator for Audubon’s Project Puffin , who hustled us into a van for a 20-minute drive to New Harbor. We want all birds to be bursting with health, and we revel in our rare idle moments.

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The Art of Bird Camp

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Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). Puffins growl like chainsaws, and one in Britain was seen carrying 62 fish in her beak. Most “bird-friendly”-labeled coffee is not bird-friendly at all.

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Collaborative list – August 2018

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Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? fishing beach. Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Veliko blato lake NR / Mika Alas fish farm–IBA Uš?e Bravo if you have.

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