Feathered Friends: Seabird Event Stresses Importance of Coexistence

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ROCKLAND - Maine's seabirds are holding their own against predators and encroaching civilization, but only with outside help.

An irony of the effort to preserve and restore the threatened populations of seabirds is that just as humans were largely responsible for their near demise, their survival is also dependent on the help of mankind, according to Stephen Kress, director of Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program and Puffin Project.

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Feathered Friends: Seabird Event Stresses Importance of Coexistence

Kress said the seabirds were able to fend for themselves and maintain their populations along the state's beaches and islands until the last century, when they were nearly hunted to extinction. Loss of habitat by development also pressured many species.

He said that over the past...

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