Tag: Puffins

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Nothing Funny About Bad Year for Maine’s Clownish Puffins

Coastal News
Environment

10/18/2021 - By Patrick Whittle. PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s beloved puffins suffered one of their worst years for reproduction in decades this summer due to a lack of the small fish they eat. Puffins are seabirds with colorful beaks that nest on four small islands off the coast of Maine. There… SEE MORE

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Puffins

Atlantic puffins. Image by Ray Wirth at TouringKayaks.com

Paddling with the Puffins of Petit Manan

Boating
Coastal News
Environment
Ocean Awareness
Science
Travel

5/23/2012 - By Ray Wirth at TouringKayaks.com Water Walker Sea Kayak, LLC We rose at dawn and drove to a rocky beach south of Steuben. We donned the thick black wetsuits needed to paddle safely in 50 degree waters, launched from the rocky beach, and paddled south along Petit Manan Point, all the… SEE MORE

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