[SEMCO] Project Puffin talk at Wellfleet Bay

[Melissa Lowe]

Maine Audubon's successful efforts to restore Atlantic Puffins to the
New England coast will be the subject of a FREE talk by Juliet Lamb,
Project Puffin research intern on Saturday, April  19, 2 p.m. at the
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Below are more details of the talk and speaker's background. The talk is
free and no registration is required. The sanctuary is located in South
Wellfleet on the west side of Route 6 just north of the Eastham and
Wellfleet town line. For more information call 508-349-2615.

Each spring, as hundreds of puffins return to the coast of Maine from
winters at sea, a small group of biologists heads out to remote offshore
islands to protect and study their breeding colonies. Project Puffin was
started by Dr. Stephen Kress of the National Audubon Society in 1973,
when only one pair of puffins nested in the state.  His innovative
techniques allowed puffin colonies to be reestablished in Maine, and the
efforts of interns and volunteers allow them to remain.  Juliet Lamb, a
Brewster resident who has spent the past two summers working on the
Project, will share some of the experiences she has had while living and
working among the seabirds, and provide a unique look at the challenges
and rewards of seabird conservation, in the Gulf of Maine and beyond.
Juliet Lamb, a Nauset Regional High School graduate, has been conducting
field research on birds since completing her college degree in 2005.
She's interned as a rehabilitator at WildCare in Orleans, tracked Harpy
eagles through the Panamanian rainforest, trapped egrets in the
Everglades, and banded hawks in Oregon.  Next fall, she will begin a
more stable life as a graduate student researching seabird breeding
ecology.



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Melissa Lowe, Education Coordinator
Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
PO Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663
mlowe at massaudubon.org
508-349-2615, ext 107

Protecting the Nature of Massachusetts
www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay


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