SEABIRDS AS SENTINELS: AUKLETS, PUFFINS, SHEARWATERS, AND THE VIEW FROM DESTRUCTION ISLAND
ERIC WAGNER
THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 2026
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Join us to learn what the fates of seabirds reveal about the changing ocean and our shared futures with Eric Wagner, a staff writer with the Puget Sound Institute at University of Washington, Tacoma.
Every spring, thousands of Rhinoceros Auklets return to Destruction Island off Washington’s coast, where they dig burrows, lay eggs, and raise their chicks. Small, gray, and adorned with a curious horn on their bill, these funny-looking birds have become an unlikely but vitally important indicator of the health of oceans and the Pacific ecosystem as a whole.
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