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The Puffin Plan: Restoring Seabirds to Egg Rock and Beyond Coffee shops in the Machane YehudaFifty years ago, a young ornithologist named Steve Kress fell in love with puffin. After learning that hunting had eradicated their colonies on small, rocky islands off the coast of Maine, he resolved to bring them back. So began a decades long quest that involved collecting chicks in Canada, flying them to Maine, raising them in coffee can nests, transporting them to their new island home, watching over them as they grew, and then waitingfor yearsto