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| Atlantic Puffin with Herring for Chick |
Seal Island lies roughly 20 miles
off Rockland, Maine and is part of the Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge.
The Seabird Restoration Project
(Project Puffin) manages the island for Atlantic Puffin, Black Guillemot, Razorbills as well as Artic and Common terns.
Leach's storm-petrels, Great cormerants, Common eider and Savannah sparrows also nest on the island in numbers.
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| Puffins Loafing on the Boulder Berm |
Puffins come to land once a year
to nest. On Seal, they use the area under the larg rocks making up the edge of the island (boulder berm). Each
pair have just one chick which they raise until the chick is able to leave the island on its own.
Departing at night, the Puffin chicks
spend the next 3 - 5 at sea before they return to breed.
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