But no puffins nested on Eastern Egg Rock that year, or the next. Or the next. A few of the transplanted birds nested with the existing puffin colony on Matinicus Rock, ...

Puffins are small seabirds belonging to the Alcidae family.There are four species of puffins: the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), the Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata), the Horned Puffin ...