33-year-old puffin with chick spotted

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Hey old bird: A 33-year-old puffin on New Brunswick island going strong, with a chick

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A 33-year-old puffin on New Brunswick island going strong, with a chick.

Puffins start reproducing around four or five so JG18 has probably had more than 25 chicks in its lifetime even if all didn't survive.

Machias Seal Island is a flat, treeless sanctuary for seabirds located about 19 kilometres southwest of New Brunswick’s Grand Manan Island .

JG18 is a cold-adapted, northern species in this region that have been exposed to some of the warmest waters in comparison to puffins in other regions.

“Now that he has a new band and we know which guy he is in the database, we can come up with a name, and maybe it’ll be fun to see if he’s still around the next few years ,” Oliker said.

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