A Puffin Reality Show

Thanks for this!  Some years ago, CBS Sunday (I think) did a segment on repopulating the islands off the coast of Main with Puffins that had been there originally but had been killed off (as was mentioned in the radio story). It was quite a complicated procedure — puffins only nest on the site where they were born but they leave and return so they had to get puffins to break that cycle in order to repopulate the islands.  Puffins are social and like to have other puffins around to feel comfortable nesting — so to achieve critical mass the biologists doing this planted “puppet” puffins around to make it seem to the “live” puffins being introduced that there were others — and they showed the live puffins congregating around the fake ones.  So they nested, had baby puffins, and the babies flew off as they were supposed to. Then the biologists had to wait 2 years to see if the “native born” baby puffins would return as adults to reestablish the colony.  The last part of the segment was the sight of puffins returning to their home base — a successful end to this valiant effort.  I wonder if this is that same colony years later.