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Puffin Love Flies High in Maine

Penguin lookalikes need 24-hour protection from swooping gulls

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 26, 2007 5:28 PM CDT

(Newser) – Puffin-love is flying high in Maine, where hundreds of these penguin look-a-likes are lured by wooden decoys and given 24-hour protection, the AP reports. Supervisors endure screeching gulls and pooping dive-bombers to protect these finned waddlers and their nests. So just what are puffins? Birds...   Read full story »

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