On Friday evening November 11, the Green Mountain Audubon Society and UVM  
are sponsoring a special program entitled Project Puffin: A Seabird 
Restoration  Program. Dr. Steve Kress, the Director of the National Audubon 
Society's Seabird  Restoration Program and the founder of Project Puffin in Maine, 
will be visiting  Vermont to present this program. The techniques that Steve 
developed for the  restoration of seabird nesting colonies in Maine have 
been adopted worldwide.  For example, social attraction techniques developed in 
Maine to promote the  development of nesting colonies of Common, Roseate, 
and Arctic Terns  on Maine coastal islands have been used by Mark LaBarr as 
an integral part  of the Common Tern Restoration Progam in Vermont. Steve 
will discuss the methods  he used to re-establish nesting colonies of Atlantic 
Puffins, terns, and Leach's  Storm Petrel on Maine's coastal islands. These 
islands are now home to over 42,  000 birds and 27 species.
 
This program will take place at the Billings Lecture Hall on the UVM campus 
 in Burlington starting at 7 P.M. and is free and open to the public.  
Parking is available in the vicinity of the Billings building, which  is next to 
Ira Allen chapel. Dr. Kress will also be lecturing on Thursday  in 
Middlebury. Please consult the Otter Creek Audubon Society's website for  details 
about their events and the GMAS website at _http://greenmountainaudubon.org_ 
(http://greenmountainaudubon.org)  for  further information about Friday 
evening's program.
 
Bruce MacPherson
GMAS