Hake Haul 1

Description

Portrait of puffin with hake for a chick on Eastern Egg Rock, Maine. Atlantic puffins were wiped out here by hunters in the 1880s. In 1973, Audubon researcher Steve Kress began bringing puffin chicks to seal from 800 miles away in Newfoundland. Kress hoped the birds would grow to remember Egg Rock, not Newfoundland, as home. He guessed right. In 2019, the Eastern Egg Rock saw a record 188 breeding pairs of puffins. It was the world's first successful seabird island restoration.