The number of Tufted Puffins nesting on Haystack Rock showed a significant increase in 2023 compared to the previous year. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that 106 Tufted
Ever since the first time I saw Protection Island across the water from Sequim in the late 1990s, I’ve wondered about it. My aunt, an Audubon member, told me the largest colony of Rhinoceros Auklets in the state was on the closed-to-the-public island and described their nesting habits. I’ve been fascinated ever since.
Alaska is known as The Last Frontier, and for those that have visited, it’s easy to see why. As Lindblad Expeditions’ former Director of Photography,