Project Puffin and the Hog Island Maine Audubon CampLocation: The Red House Nature Center 65275 Route 48 Greenport When: 7:30 pm Friday, October 14
This historic camp has been run by the National Audubon Society since the 1930’s and is celebrating its 75th Anniversary this summer. It is also the summer headquarters of Project Puffin. This summer, NFAS president Diana Van Buren spent a week at the Hog Island Audubon Camp in Maine.Come and learn more about how and why the Atlantic Puffin now thrives off the Maine coast, and how you can spend a week at Hog Island yourself, next summer. For Info: 917-623-5373 or northforkaudubon@mac.com
Atlantic Puffins and other Maine seabirds suffered from intense hunting for their eggs, meat and feath- ers for nearly 300 years following Colonial days. By the mid 1800’s, their numbers already greatly reduced, fashion trends began to dictate decorative feathers for hats and other fine ladies fashions. At their lowest ebb in 1900, seabirds such as Eiders, Cormorants, Gannets, Murres, and Great Black-back Gulls were completely eliminated from the Maine coast.
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