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

by Derrick Z. Jackson, Stephen W. Kress, Pete Salmansohn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300204817
• ISBN13: 9780300204810
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.4"