10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

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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Puffins Eggs Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle 274

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2018

At Dunnet Head, we got to see a couple of Atlantic Puffins, a few Razorbills, some Guillemots and gulls. Hundreds of Black-headed Gulls, Greater Black-backed Gulls , Mew Gulls , and Fulmars , thousands of Razorbills , 60-70 Puffins , and literally tens of thousands of Guillemots. Total Scotland Species – 105.

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Puffins Wildlife Reserve 2003 Farming 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2024

We have around two thirds of the world population of Gannets, along with internationally important numbers of Guillemots, Puffins, Razorbills, Kittiwakes and Fulmars. A month later I had the chance to watch these impressive birds again, fishing off Cape Trafalgar in southern Spain. These birds are all cliff nesters.

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Puffins Eggs Fish Culling 137

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2021

Between them, they found 389 species in 5 countries. Insects were held back by weird spring weather, but now the warmth returns and the birds are feasting on the late stirring bugs. June saw 8 beats get their birding boots on and share 90 checklists for your pleasure.

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Woodpeckers Sparrows Ducks Niger 262

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

On our first morning after breakfast, my group and the teens piled onto a boat and headed out to Eastern Egg Rock, once again the breeding ground for Atlantic Puffins (as well as a host of other seabirds) thanks to biologist Dr. Stephen Kress. Puffins growl like chainsaws, and one in Britain was seen carrying 62 fish in her beak.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 273

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

She doesn’t know the species till it emerges, almost dreamlike, from the heavy glare of the sun. Having shown us the bird, the boat, and the water, Fox then introduces herself: “Albatrosses, petrels, fulmars, puffins and gulls live out their lives along these transect lines; my job is to count them all.”.

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2018

For some of these lands, Congress mandated that they be managed primarily for the “conservation of fish and wildlife and their habitat,” a rarity for National Forests, which are generally managed for multiple uses, including resource extraction. Happy Alaska Day!

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Alaska United States Puffins Wildlife 236