Category: Puffin Project
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Island Update from Jacob’23
Things on Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge are going super well! We are typically in blinds conducting feeding studies on the common and arctic terns by 0830. For three hours, we monitor what food chicks are being fed by their parents. This includes the prey type (fish or invertebrate species), prey size (relative to the parent’s…
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Island reunions and PSG introductions!
Two wonderful alums found themselves studying seabirds together on Matinicus Rock as part of the Puffin Project in the Gulf of Maine. The Puffins called them back for a second season; Kay was a Puffineer last summer and Clare was one the summer before last. Kristina’12 was a Puffineer several years ago– it was wonderful…
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Island Update from Kay!
The chicks are hatching!!!!!! We are doing feeding studies, and I am already attached to c chick, which I know is a dangerous game… yesterday we had a peregrine falcon that took two of our common terns 🙁 Also, Kay has caught and banded several puffins and she has named one “Prof. K.” I am so…
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Another Sagehen Roosting with Puffins!
The third Sagehen is monitoring seabirds with the Puffin Project! Kay’18 is following the tradition started with Kristina and Clare.
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Sagehen on Southeast Farallon Island!
Clare’19 who was on Seal Island as part of the Puffin Project last summer is now out on Southeast Farallon Island! She is continuing the tradition of Sagehens out on the rock. In past years Matt, Kristina and Eleanor contributed to the collection of the long term data sets that have become part of several…
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Update from Sagehen on Seal Island
Mid-July update from Clare! Everything’s still going great here! Almost all of the chicks on the island are hatched, so we’ve been super busy with feeding studies. I think my favorite thing we do out here is tern feeding studies, where we sit and watch 6 nests for three hours and mark down when parents…
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UPDATE FROM SAGEHEN STUDYING PUFFINS ON SEAL ISLAND!
Clare received a Summer Undergraduate Research Grant to carry out seabird research this summer and sent in this update: Right now I’m with the Audubon’s Project Puffin out on Seal Island, Maine, which is 25 miles off of the coast. There are only 6 of us sharing our 65 acre island, which contains a cabin…