Atlantic Puffin
Atlantic Puffin

Author: Kristin Bieber Domm

Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Pub.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781551095189

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The Atlantic Puffin is a familiar symbol of the Atlantic region, earning it the nickname "Little Brother of the North." This wonderful story is told from the point of view of a puffin, drawing the reader effortlessly into the natural habitat of a puffin's world. Accompanied with beautiful illustrations, Atlantic Puffin details habitat, breeding cycles, eating and nesting habits, and more, about the life of this fascinating animal. Artistically rendered, carefully researched, this latest installment from the popular writing and illustrating team of Kristin and Jeff Domm will delight any child or adult who seeks to learn more about the treasured Atlantic Puffin.

Project Puffin
Project Puffin

Author: Stephen W. Kress

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 0300213670

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Project Puffin is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until extirpated by hunters in the late 1800s. To right this environmental wrong, he resolved to bring puffins back to one such island—Eastern Egg Rock. Yet bringing the plan to reality meant convincing skeptics, finding resources, and inventing restoration methods at a time when many believed in “letting nature take its course.” Today, Project Puffin has restored more than 1,000 puffin pairs to three Maine islands. But even more exciting, techniques developed during the project have helped to restore rare and endangered seabirds worldwide. Further, reestablished puffins now serve as a window into the effects of climate change. The success of Dr. Kress's project offers hope that people can restore lost wildlife populations and the habitats that support them. The need for such inspiration has never been greater.

Nights of the Pufflings
Nights of the Pufflings

Author:

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780395856932

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Describes an island tradition in Iceland when the children rescue thousands of stranded young puffins each August and set them free at the beach.

Puffin's Homecoming
Puffin's Homecoming

Author: Darice Bailer

Publisher:

Published: 1995-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781568991412

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An Atlantic Puffin and his mate meet annually on a high bluff of an island off the coast of Maine. Puffin's mate bears a single egg from which a hatchling is nurtured to maturity.

Nothing Like a Puffin
Nothing Like a Puffin

Author: Sue Soltis

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 0763636177

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A narrator sets out to prove that there is nothing exactly like a puffin but discovers that many things, including a newspaper and a helicopter, are a little bit like one and that a penguin is very much like a puffin.

The Puffin
The Puffin

Author: Mike P. Harris

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-11-21

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1408160560

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A comprehensive monograph on the Atlantic Puffin. With its colourful beak and fast, whirring flight, this is the most recognisable and popular of all North Atlantic seabirds. Puffins spend most of the year at sea, but for a few months of the year the come to shore, nesting in burrows on steep cliffs or on inaccessible islands. Awe-inspiring numbers of these birds can sometimes be seen bobbing on the sea or flying in vast wheels over the colony, bringing fish in their beaks back to the chicks. However, the species has declined sharply over the last decade; this is due to a collapse in fish stocks caused by overfishing and global warming, combined with an exponential increase in Pipefish (which can kill the chicks). The Puffin is a revised and expanded second edition of Poyser's 1984 title on these endearing birds, widely considered to be a Poyser classic. It includes sections on their affinities, nesting and incubation, movements, foraging ecology, survivorship, predation, and research methodology; particular attention is paid to conservation, with the species considered an important 'indicator' of the health of our coasts.

The Puffin Plan
The Puffin Plan

Author: Derrick Z. Jackson

Publisher: Tumblehome, Incorporated

Published: 2020-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943431571

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Fifty years ago, a young ornithologist named Steve Kress fell in love with penguins. After learning that hunting had eradicated their colonies on small, rocky islands off the coast of Maine, he resolved to bring them back. So began a decades-long quest that involved collecting chicks in Canada, flying them to Maine, raising them in coffee-can nests, transporting them to their new island home, watching over them as they grew, and then waiting--for years--to see if they would come back. This is the story of how the Puffin Project reclaimed a piece of our rich biological heritage, and how it inspired other groups around the world to help other species re-root in their native lands.

Puffin Peter
Puffin Peter

Author: Petr Horacek

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2021-06-15

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1536221171

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Kids will delight in this witty story of mistaken identity from acclaimed author-illustrator Petr Horácek. Peter and Paul are puffins and the best of friends. But one day Peter gets lost in a terrible storm, and Paul is nowhere to be found. With the help of a big blue whale, Peter sets out, determined to find his pal. What the pair discovers is that many other birds match the description Peter gives of Paul, but none are quite like his friend. With gorgeous collage artwork and a lighthearted touch, this fun read-aloud tale will both amuse and enlighten.

Atlantic Puffins
Atlantic Puffins

Author: Megan Borgert-Spaniol

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 153215979X

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This title takes readers to Atlantic puffin habitats to understand why Atlantic puffins are at risk, what humans are doing to make matters worse, and the ways humans can help to save Atlantic puffins and ultimately, Earth. Sidebars, maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, and a fact sheet. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Every Last Puffin
Every Last Puffin

Author: Edward Hancox

Publisher: Silverwood Books

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9781800420311

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There's nothing like a puffin, right? Except soon there may not be anything like a puffin left in the United Kingdom. In 2015, the International Union for Conservation of Nature added the Atlantic puffin to the Red List of Threatened Species for birds. This book is a journey to find the last strongholds of the most enigmatic birds in the United Kingdom. Every last puffin. It's a story of scouting for puffins on the remote Hebridean outpost of St Kilda, where they used to be found on dinner tables, of braving the fierce winds of Shetland to find pufflings, and of unintentionally swimming with puffins in the Shiant Isles. Scottish 'tammie norries' are sought from Lunga to Westray to the Isle of May. Elsewhere, there's a puffin fightback in Skomer, southern puffins in the balmy Isles of Scilly, and the tale of an errant puffin who made an impromptu visit to a sex clinic in Hampshire. This is a celebration of all things puffin, and a last chance to see the clown of the sea before it's too late.