Derrick Z. Jackson

Derrick Z. Jackson is the co-author of "Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock" and a photographer. He was a longtime columnist at the Boston Globe.

Derrick Z. Jackson is the co-author of "Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock" and a photographer. He was a longtime columnist at the Boston Globe.


Puffin with hake and bluefish.

How puffins made it back to Maine’s Egg Rock

Environment

Project Puffin, a National Audubon Society project, is the story of how the beloved Puffin seabird was restored to its long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. Dr. Stephen Kress and Derrick Z. Jackson have written about the restoration project in a new book. Here, Jackson talks about Project Puffin and the importance of restoring these symbolic birds to their island home.