Jan 01, 1976 / Eastern Egg Rock (Muscongus Bay) / Atlantic Puffin

Supplemental Feedings: What's This?
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Feeding Duration (in days): What's This?
28.00 Reference Source
Marked With: What's This?
Leg Bands
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Monitored By: What's This?
Sight
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Monitoring Duration: What's This?
300.00 Reference Source
Number Survived 1 Week: What's This?
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Percentage Survived 1 Week: What's This?
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Number Survived 1 Month: What's This?
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Percentage Survived 1 Month: What's This?
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Number Survived 1 Year: What's This?
9 Reference Source
Percentage Survived 1 Year: What's This?
10.00 Reference Source
Main Cause of Death: What's This?
Not Located Reference Source
Breeding Attempted: What's This?
No Reference Source
Breeding Successful: What's This?
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Return Allowed: What's This?
Yes Reference Source
Return To Homesite: What's This?
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Distance: What's This?
1600.00 Reference Source
Number Returned: What's This?
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Percentage Returned: What's This?
0.00 Reference Source
Notes: What's This?
SELECTION CRITERIA: Old enough to thermoregulate and young enough to adjust to new burrow. RETURN ALLOWED: Puffins released from nest burrows, nestlings primarily remained in burrows until fledging. According to 1979 newseltter of "Egg Rock Update," an unspecified amount of chicks from the 1976 translocation returned to Egg Island in 1979. 1982 Newsletter Update "Egg Rock" by S.W. Kress notes that 14 breeding pairs returned to Egg Rock Island in 1982. "Most" are returns from 571 translpanted chicks from between 1975 and 1980. In 1982, four of the breeding puffins were unbanded and came from Matinicus rock or Seal island. Immigrants are noted to become an increasingly important part of the Egg Rock population.
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Jessica Beltran