Adult Puffin with fledgling by Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe

Adopt A Puffin
For Mother’s Day!

This Mother’s Day, we are honoring our puffin moms, Y33, EN53, and EN+06. Each has reared a puffling from hatching to fledging almost every year for the past 20 years! Pufflings “fledge” when they are about 42 days old, at which time they head to sea to begin a life of independence.

Puffin mom EN53 will be 30 years old this year. She has fledged a puffling every year since 1987. Puffin mom EN+06 will be 29 years old this year. She has fledged a puffling every year since 1992. And Puffin mom Y33 (one of the two oldest breeding puffins on Eastern Egg Rock Island) is 32 years old and has also fledged a puffling every year since 1992. Each of these nurturing moms has nested in the same burrow every year for over 20 years!

Atlantic Puffin EN+06 by Bill Scholtz

Puffling Y54 by Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe

Learn more about one of these super moms by adopting a puffin as a gift for a special mom or mom-to-be. Honored moms will receive a biography of their adopted puffin, a certificate of adoption and choice of a gift.

Or, make a donation to Project Puffin in honor of, or in memory of, a special mom.

PS: When adopting online, please let us know that this is a Mother’s Day adoption. Recipients of Mother’s Day adoptions received by 3PM on May 6th will receive their adoption package by Mother’s Day (postage included). Mother’s Day adoptions received between May 7th and 8th (by 3:00PM EST) can be shipped via UPS Next Day Air to arrive by Mother’s Day. Please add an additional $20 to your donation if you desire overnight shipping. Adoptions received after 3:00PM EST on May 8th will be shipped on Monday, May 11th. For questions, please contact edonatepuffin@audubon.org

To proceed to our adoption center, click HERE

Left to right: Puffin EN53 by Bill Scholtz, Puffling by Steve Kress, Puffin Y33 by Bill Scholtz