For the Love of Seabirds: Project Puffin & Hog Island Audubon Camp

Calendar
When:
November 19, 2024 @ 7:00 pm
2024-11-19T19:00:00-06:00
2024-11-19T19:15:00-06:00
Where:
Zoom Presentation
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Cost:
Free
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Puffin Zoom Program
For the Love of Seabirds: Project Puffin & Hog Island Audubon Camp @ Zoom Presentation

For over 50 years, most of his adult life, Dr. Stephen Kress worked to bring back extirpated Atlantic Puffins to their once established colonies of Eastern Egg Rock Island and other islands off the coast of Maine. Brenda Hente studied under Dr. Kress at Maine’s Audubon Camp during the summers of 2015, 2016 and 2017. In this presentation, Hente will describe the causes of this seabird’s disappearance, the struggles and obstacles that Dr. Kress faced while restoring Atlantic Puffin and other seabird colonies to where they once lived, and how this difficult task of seabird restoration is teaching others about successful seabird restoration and conservation efforts throughout the world.