10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2014

The first time I saw a puffin, it was a revelation. Soon after our late afternoon arrival we met up with my friend Pete Salmonsohn, Education Coordinator for Audubon’s Project Puffin , who hustled us into a van for a 20-minute drive to New Harbor. There are boat trips to Eastern Egg Rock, as well as to other small islands.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Each year Hog Island offers programs, taught by a stellar staff of naturalists and artists, to groups of all kinds (teenagers, adults, families). Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977. What was it like?” I asked one of the teens, when eventually they rejoined us.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

A few families have a small number of eggs in the clutches, like gulls or cormorants. Others, like the petrels and some of the auks, will lay a single egg per breeding attempt. Others invest much more effort into fewer young, giving a smaller number a much better start.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The “Owls and Albatrosses” chapter, for example, begins with Doug’s personal experiences observing of the nesting strategies of Malleefowl and a Moluccan Megapode, Australasian “chickens who lay their eggs in unusual ways and do not parent. And then we go back to the evolution of clutch size.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

When Daisy started talking about a family trip to Maine for the long Memorial Day Weekend I had one thing on my mind: puffins! Atlantic Puffins are easier to see, and see well, in Maine than anywhere else in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock is a tiny, rocky island well within site of the Maine-land.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2018

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? Tufted Puffin – Fratercula cirrhata. Atlantic Puffin – Fratercula arctica. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Bravo if you have.

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