Restoration & Mitigation

Richard Podolsky has worked on many coastal bird restoration/mitigation projects in many places, including Maine, the Galapagos, and Hawaii.

Specifically, he worked for over 10 years on the restoration of Atlantic Puffins, Roseate, Common and Arctic Terns, and Leach’s Storm-petrels to Maine Islands.

Laysan Albatross courting on Kauai

He worked for 4 years on the restoration of the Galapagos Petrel on Santa Cruz and Pinta Island in the Galapagos Islands.

In Hawaii, where Podolsky has been working continuously since 1981, he has helped to help restore Laysan Albatross to Kauai and Oahu and has worked for many years on the restoration and mitigation of Hawaiian Petrel and Newell’s Shearwater to many islands in Hawaii.