Project PuffinEastern Egg Rock, a treeless seven-acre island in Maine, serves as a breeding ground for 6,000 surface-nesting birds. Along with puffins, there are three species of terns, along with guillemots, laughing gulls, eider ducks and Leach's storm-petrels. Each summer, about five biologists move onto the island to oversee the National Audubon Society's Project Puffin and to protect the seabirds.
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