A puffin holds white hake in its beak lands after landing on Eastern Egg Rock in Muscongus Bay on Monday, June 22, 2015. The puffins can travel up to 50 miles over the Gulf of Maine, looking for small fish to feed their chicks, who nest under large rocks on the shore of Eastern Egg Rock. During the ‘ocean heat wave’ of 2012, small fish like white hake, herring and sand lance the puffins catch to feed to their chicks fled for deeper and cooler water. The puffins caught a larger butterfish instead but their chicks couldn’t fit the larger fish down their throats and many chicks ended up starving. (Photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)

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