Written by: Bill Silliker Steve Pulos.
Because the familiar gray and white herring gull is so common a sight almost everywhere, it's easy to forget that these are actually seabirds, one of fourteen species that nest and rear their young on Maine's thousands of offshore islands. And, unlike the ubiquitous "seagull," most seabirds are still wild. They shun humans and remain terribly vulnerable to our interference. There are colorful puffins, slender and graceful arctic terns, and big, thickly feathered eider ducks.
Once decimated by the egg-gathering and other activities of early island settlers, Maine's colonies of murres, razorbill auks, terns, petrels guillemots, and laughing gulls have rebounded thanks in large part to the help of people whose voices you'll hear in this film.
In this video, the birds' wildness and their struggle to survive are brilliantly portrayed against a rugged backdrop of incomparable beauty. VHS, 50 minutes
