Seabirds in the News

Project Puffin, Eastern Egg Rock - from conservationregistry.org, November 2012

The Puffin Charmer: By thinking like a social bird, Stephen Kress brought puffins back to the United States - from "DOERS" on slate.com, November 2012

A Puffin Reality Show - from WBUR's HERE AND NOW radio show at hereandnow.wbur.org, June 2012

An Eye on the Sea from Above: What Seabirds Tell Us About the Gulf of Maine - from workingwaterfront.com, May 2012

Help a Puffin Colony! Just dig in to Puffins cereal - from VIVAMAGONLINE.com, Earth Issue 2012 (with photos by Bill Scholtz, in collaboration with Project Puffin)

Tracking puffins helps scientists learn about unusual bird - by Ann Cameron Siegal, fromKidsPost - washingtonpost.com, March 2012

Puffins: It’s better in Bermuda - Editorial from bostonglobe.com, February 2012

The Secret Life of the Rambling Puffin - by Jim Robbins, from green.blogs.nytimes.com, February 2012

Where Do Puffins Go in the Winter? - Editorial from sciencedaily.com, January 2012

Ripple Marks: The Story Behind the Story - The Gulf of Maine: Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Slack Tide for Seabirds - by Cheryl Lyn Dybas, from Oceanography - The Official Magazine of the Oceanography Society, Volume 24 | Number 3 | September 2011

Pies on Parade: my new favorite Rockland festival - by Eva Murray, from Village Soup Community Network (Herald Gazette), January 2011

Hatching My Passion - by Steve Kress, from lowescreativeideas.com, October 2010

Back to the source - by Pete Dunne, from Birder's World magazine, October 2010

A Puffin Comeback - Cover story from Smithsonian magazine, June 2010

Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures - Project Puffin episode has been airing on two stations in California in January - KCVU-CR (FOX) - Chico/Redding, CA and KRON-SF (MyTV) - San Francisco, CA - according to alerts from tveyes.com, January 2010 (NOTE: need password to use site)

Seabird Conservation News

Puffin Count On Isle of May NNR in Scotland Gives Surprising Result  - from sciencedaily.com, May 2013

Lost & Found - from New Zealand Geographic, May 2013

Puffins Overhunted in Iceland - from News of Icelend, May 2013

Invasive species: The 18-km² rat trap - from nature.com, May 2013

Seabirds Carry Warnings of Ocean Pollution - from LiveScience.com, May 2013

Plan to save New Zealand seabirds heralds changes to fishing practises - from BirdLife International, April 2013

Hundreds of dead puffins found on the east coast could have died of starvation due to wintry weather - from Daily Record (UK), March 2013

A Guitar reveals the call of the Fiji Petrel - from BirdLife International, January 2013

Fake gannets entice real gannets to hatch chick on Motuora Island - from New Zealand Department of Conservation, January 2013

Tern Island research station destroyed, crew evacuating - from Raising Islands--Hawai'i science and environment (raisingislands.blogspot.com), December 2012

Razorbill: Victim of Hurricane Sandy? - from CNN iReport, December 2012

Rat eradication project on South Georgia set to resume - from BBC News, November 2012

Above the ocean: saving the world's most threatened birds - from news.mongabay.com, November 2012

Easing The Collateral Damage Fisheries Inflict on Seabirds - from Yale's sciencedaily.com, August 2012

Arctic Seabirds Adapt to Climate Change - from sciencedaily.com, May 2012

More petrels discovered in Haiti - from BirdLife International, February 2012

First ever chick photos give hope for threatened Caribbean seabird - from Grupo Jaragua, January 2012

Second Short-Tailed Albatross Hatches at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge - from What's New - Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge News, January 2012

Aircraft carrier and helicopters come to unique island’s rescue - from BirdLife International, December 2011

A Call to Protect Humble Fish, for Seabirds’ Sake - from NY Times, December 2011

She's Back! - from What's New - Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge News, December 2011

Outright puffin hunting ban suggested in face of population crisis - from IceNews, November 2011

Little auks go to the Greenland Sea to moult - from PlanetEarthONLINE, September 2011

New Bird Species Revealed to Science After 50 Years in Museum Drawer - from abcbirds.org, August 2011

Grim Outlook for Puffin and Arctic Tern Nesting - from icelandreview.com, June 2011

Puffins get 'sat nav' devices for key study - from independent.ie, May 2011

'Success' in South Georgia rat eradication - from BBC News, May 2011

New Models May Reduce Seabird Bycatch - from sciencedaily.com, April 2011

'Naked' Penguins Baffle Experts - from sciencedaily.com, April 2011

200 puffin decoys to lure birds back to Ramsey Island - from BBC News, April 2011

Big Fishing Yields Small Fish - from sciencenews.org, April 2011

MS Oliva runs aground on Nightingale Island, Causing an Environmental Disaster - from tristandc.com, March 2011

Oldest known wild bird returns to Midway Atoll to raise chick - from birdwatchingdaily.com's Field of View blog, March 2011

Another New Storm-Petrel Discovered - from BirdingBlogs.com, February 2011 - also please refer to this pdf file by Peter Harrison

Ninety Percent of Arctic Tern Chicks Starve - from Iceland Review_Online, January 2011

China’s rarest bird discovered wintering in Indonesia - from BirdLife International, December 2010

A Path for Puffins - from The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 2010

Flexibility could help seabirds cope with climate change - from PlanetEarth Online, November 2010

Puffin colony recovers after mystery crash in numbers - from guardian.co.uk, July 2010

Jamaica's petrels reveal some of their secrets - from BirdLife International, June 2010

Murres & Eagles - from OPB.org (TV Section), March 2010

Extermination in paradise - from NewScientist.com, March 2010

Dead puffins thought to have been blown to Island by storms -  from The Royal Gazette, February 2010

Worsening North Sea conditions could be increasing Atlantic puffins mortality in winter- from Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), January 2010

Preventing extinction through education - from BirdLife International, January 2010

Arctic tern's epic journey mapped - from BBC News, January 2010

North Sea conditions could be harming puffins - from PlanetEarthOnline, January 2010