On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change.
“This year is a good example of how complex things are. We can't boil it down to one variable,” he said. “We still have a lot to learn.” The puffins' ability to reproduce despite environmental changes speaks to the resiliency of seabirds, said Bill Sydeman, president and chief scientist of the Farallon Institute, a marine preservation organization based in California. However, the long-term dangers posed by climate change — such as fatal heat waves, loss of food, loss of islands to sea level rise and inability to breed — remain existential threats to puffins and many other seabirds, he said.
An Atlantic puffin brings a beak full of baitfish to feed its chick in a burrow under rocks on Eastern Egg Rock, a small island off mid-coast Maine. The adult birds in the colonies appear fairly robust, and it's"likely the population is stable, and it could still be growing,” Lyons said.
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