|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
Fifty years ago, a young ornithologist named Steve Kress fell in
love with puffin. 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.
Fifty years ago, a young ornithologist named Steve Kress fell in
love with puffin. 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.
|
You may like...
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R63
Discovery Miles 630
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.