アメリカ自然史博物館のインスタグラム(amnh) - 9月10日 03時58分

Known for its bright beak, the Atlantic Puffin nearly disappeared from the United States, reduced to just one nesting pair in 1901. Today, it’s a powerful example of how bird populations can be restored to historic nesting sites. These seabirds once nested on several Maine islands, but by the 20th century their populations had been depleted through widespread egg collecting and hunting, both for food and for feathers used in bedding and on ladies’ hats. Even after protective measures were put into place in 1918, puffins were slow to return to Maine. In the 1970s, the National Audubon Society launched Project Puffin, sending teams to Newfoundland’s Great Island--home to a puffin colony of about 160,000 nesting pairs-- to bring back week-old puffin chicks to raise in Maine. The project required many trips over 13 years, as well as extraordinary care for the transplanted birds (chicks were placed in hand-made burrows and fed fish by their new “puffin parents.”) Young puffins head out to sea for several years before returning “home” to breed, so the team had to wait to see if the relocation had really worked. Puffins began to come back in 1977, and in 1981, four pairs nested on Maine’s Eastern Egg Rock Island. Today, the colony has grown to 150 pairs. Photo: Naggobot (http://bit.ly/2eVOy6M) #puffin #puffins #puffinstagram #seabird #seabirds #conservation #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birdsofinstagram #beak #atlanticpuffin #amnh #insideamnh #naturalhistory

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