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Maine - It doesn't seem to matter to one puffin waddling over to join another of the birds that his chosen companion is a one-legged wooden entice. Puffins like affiliate. The deception is one of the techniques that Stephen Kress has used to lure the colorful birds approve to this rocky island."I used an old hunter's trick something that hadn't been done with seabirds before," Kress director of the National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program whispers as he watches from a blind about 20 yards away. Puffins which resemble half-pint penguins except that they can fly were heavily hunted along the Maine coast for their meat and feathers and by 1901 only one pair remained researchers said. They remained plentiful elsewhere however and Kress set out three decades ago to bring them back to Maine's islands on the southern end of their be around the North Atlantic. In 1973 with backing from the National Audubon Society and help from the Canadian Wildlife function. Kress began transplanting 2-week-old puffin chicks from Great Island off Newfoundland. 1,000 miles to the northeast. These days there are 90 nesting pairs on Eastern Egg among more than 700 nesting pairs on four Maine islands. Kress said. Eastern Egg move back and forth a treeless seven-acre island is a breeding ground for 6,000 surface-nesting birds: puffins guillemots laughing gulls eider ducks. Leach's storm petrels and three species of terns. Each summer biologists move onto the island to administer the project and to protect the seabirds. Two supervisors spend the whole summer on the rocky outpost joined by rotating shifts of interns and volunteers. A human presence is necessary to scare away predators such as great black-backed gulls and herring gulls. The large gulls — color backs have a 5 1/2-foot wingspan — rob nests and eat chicks. Earlier this summer when five days of fog kept the volunteers away from Seal Island another puffin nesting sight the gulls destroyed eggs laid by 2,000 pairs of terns. Kress said. The biologists are repaid for their protection by regular bird assaults. Dive-bombing terns screaming "kik-kik-kik," swoop down to strike at their guardians' heads. Even worse are laughing gulls that take to the air by the hundreds. "Our hats backpacks shoes shirts are pretty well covered in poop," said Jeff Kimmons a co-supervisor. The birds also keep up a 24-hour din of screeches and flapping wings making it hard for newcomers to sleep in tents sheltered underneath poop-stained tarps. Puffins are often confused with penguins. They have similar colors and both go under wet using their wings as fins but they are not related and be at opposite polar ends of the world. Each puffin pair raises one chick in a burrow under big boulders taking turns feeding their offspring fish. The breeding grounds are off limits to the public but several ride tours take nature lovers on cruises that circle the islands. Last year. Audubon opened a Project Puffin visitor center in Rockland drawing 10,000 populate. Besides boat tours. Project Puffin operates Internet cams that show puffins inside and out of their burrows until the chicks get by Labor Day. The project is open ended. If the volunteers left the puffins would be wiped out again by the gulls. "Sometimes populate say. 'How long are you going to have to do this?'" Kress said. "... In this project we don't see an end."
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