'Seabirds are climate change prisoners. Our inaction makes us the executioners.'
to Maine cities resulted in puffins finding fewer fish and desperate terns bringing only moths, butterflies, and flying ants. , including a 3-inch deluge from Hurricane Elsa, to parts of Maine. On the islands, the increase in rain and the timing of intense rain events from climate change was fatal to birds in multiple ways.
Many tern chicks that survived the onslaught grew so slowly that it took nearly six weeks to fledge, compared to the normal three. So many puffins grew so slowly that researchers nicknamed them"micro-puffins." Such birds have a very uncertain chance of survival as they must fend for themselves way out at sea for two to three years until breeding instincts bring them back to the islands.
This summer, their caring over the carnage turned into a primal scream for action on climate change. One example in Project Puffin ismore than 20 miles out into the Atlantic Ocean from the nearest major coastal town of Rockland, Maine. Much bigger than Eastern Egg Rock, Kress replicated his puffin project to restore the bird after a century's absence. Today there are more than 500 breeding pairs of puffins.
"The chicks we found should have been big enough to band, but they weren't," said research assistant Elaine Beaudoin."They're fighting for their lives on death's door."
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