By the 1880s, the puffin had disappeared from all but one of Maine's islands. A

• Main Author: Conkling, Philip W
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Portland Public Library Digital Commons 1984
• Subjects: Puffins; Egg Rock; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_island/263

By the 1880s, the puffin had disappeared from all but one of Maine's islands. Almost a century later ornithologist Stephen Kress founded the Puffin Project to reintroduce Newfoundland puffins onto Eastern Egg Rock, off Rockland. Its techniques have been extremely successful. Details.