The Puffin Plan: Restoring Seabirds to Egg Rock and Beyond

by Derrick Z. Jackson and Stephen W. Kress

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943431574
• ISBN13: 9781943431571
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Tumblehome, Inc.
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 16 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 11