Birds & Wildlife

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Puffin FAQs

Nearly everything you've ever wanted to know about puffins.

Photo Credit: Derrick Jackson - Boston Globe

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Bird Species

Watch birds build nests and raise their young, live from Maine!

A unique opportunity to view the thriving colony at Eastern Egg Rock, Muscongus Bay, Maine.

Puffins are members of the Auk or Alcid family, along with many other species.

Common Eiders are large sea ducks that breed from Maine north to the Arctic.

The Leach's Storm-petrel is a small and secretive resident of Eastern Egg Rock.

Arctic Terns nest on Matinicus Rock, Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Eastern Egg...

The Common Tern is Eastern Egg Rock's most numerous species.

Roseate, Common and Arctic Terns each have a different nesting habitat.

Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls are familiar to anyone who has ever visited the Atla...