Tufted Puffin Feeding Ecology – Dr. John Piatt. Enjoy this virtual tour of the rarely visited and spectacular seabird nesting colonies of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Learn why Tufted Puffins are facing new conservation challenges and how studies of their foods indicate major changes in the North Pacific food web. (35 minutes)

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Project Puffin – Dr. Steve Kress.  Project Puffin’s founder recounts how he conceived the plan to bring puffins back to Egg Rock in 1973.  Looking forward, he shares some of the project’s challenges and opportunities to help seabirds. (20 minutes)

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Saving Seabirds: Lessons Learned from Puffins and Terns – Dr. Steve Kress. Restoration methods developed for puffins have inspired a worldwide movement to restore rare and endangered seabirds. Learn how Maine seabirds are also offering new insights into climate change and fisheries management. (24 minutes)

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Decoys for Seabird Restoration – Eric Snyder. Project Puffin pioneered the use of decoys for seabird restoration at Maine islands. Now ‘Social Attraction’ is used in at least 25 other countries to help seabirds. Join Eric Snyder for a personal tour inside the decoy factory at Audubon’s Seabird Institute in Maine to see how creative biologists are making decoys for export worldwide. (20 minutes)

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Saving Chinese Crested and Aleutian Terns – Dr. Don Lyons.  Dr. Lyons brings the tool of satellite tracking to China and Alaska to help discover the winter home of two of the world’s rarest terns - the Chinese Crested and Aleutian Terns.  Surprisingly, both species may winter in Indonesia where there is rising interest in seabird conservation due in part to his groundbreaking research. (40 minutes)

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