Maine's puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change
On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change.
Ecology
Aug 29, 2023
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Scientists ask bird oglers to help study puffins (Update)
The Audubon Society wants bird lovers to contribute research to a project scientists hope will help save Atlantic puffins from starvation in Maine.
Ecology
Aug 6, 2014
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Storms decimate puffin colonies on French coast
The Atlantic storms that have buffeted Europe in recent days have killed at least 5,000 sea birds on the French coast, half of them puffins.
Ecology
Feb 10, 2014
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Scientists: Puffins might spend the winter off New Jersey
Researchers say they've found an answer to the long-standing question of where Maine's Atlantic puffins spend the winter: far off New Jersey and New York.
Ecology
Feb 17, 2016
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Migration makes breeding harder for seabirds
An international collaboration has for the first time revealed the key drivers of seabird migration. The new study suggests that puffin colonies that travel great distances during the winter often find it more difficult to ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2017
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Study finds flightless puffins vulnerable to winter storms for two months a year
Puffins lose the ability to fly for up to two months every year—twice as long as previously believed. Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) suggest the seabirds are vulnerable to winter storms due to their inability ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 13, 2022
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How puffins catch food outside the breeding season
Little is known about how seabirds catch their food outside the breeding season but using modern technology, researchers at the University of Liverpool and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology have gained new insight into their ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 10, 2019
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I'm a puffin scientist
The future looks brighter for the colourful puffins on the Isle of May off the coast of Fife in Scotland, where experts from NERC's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology are conducting one of the most comprehensive studies of seabird ...
Environment
Oct 27, 2017
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Puffins to be fitted with 'sat nav' to monitor decline
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Newcastle University are using GPS technology in an effort to understand a worrying decline in the numbers of Puffins. In the last five years the numbers of the sea birds has plummeted around ...
Ecology
Jul 1, 2009
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Puffin 'sat-nav' solves mystery of feeding flight paths
Cutting edge technology is shedding light on the daily flight paths of puffins around the Farne Islands and providing clues that could be vital to the seabirds' survival.
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2010
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