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
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