Maine’s puffin colonies recovering within the face of local weather change
Surroundings The puffins — also referred to as “clowns of the ocean” or “sea parrots” — nest in burrows and feed their chicks small fish equivalent to herring. An Atlantic puffin brings a beak filled with baitfish to feed its chick in a burrow underneath rocks on Jap Egg Rock, a small island off mid-coast … [Read more…]