Saturday Special: Meet the researchers trying to help the northwest’s puffins bounce back, and remembering Dr. Quintard Taylor
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
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🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:56.5 | First, a story about rare species in our region. Sometimes a species becomes so rare that you |
| 1:02.8 | might not know that it still exists. Puffins in the northwest are that way. Populations of the cute |
| 1:09.9 | seabirds with the big beak have plummeted since the 1980s, |
| 1:13.5 | but they're still out there if you know where to look. |
| 1:17.7 | John Ryan caught up with researchers hoping to help these cute, comical-looking birds bounce back. |
| 1:24.3 | 70 years ago, a biologist named Ernest Booth recorded tufted puffins near |
| 1:28.6 | Anna Cordes in Burroughs Bay. He recorded an adult growling and a baby puffin or |
| 1:37.4 | puffling squealing to be fed. That historical audio is from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. |
| 1:45.9 | 70 years later, I interviewed biologist Peter Hottom on that same bay. |
| 1:50.7 | Is this someplace where you might have expected to see puffins? |
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