World Puffin Congress

bringing together everyone who studies, celebrates, and protects puffins

The World Puffin Congress connects the scientists, artists, educators, and colony caretakers working on behalf of puffins around the world. Their website gathers that community in one place, linking each person to their research, artwork, and conservation work so visitors can learn about puffins, celebrate them, and help protect them.

The site includes an extensive resource library including scientific papers, K-12 curricula, videos, books, and artwork — browsable by format or topic. 

the people protecting puffins

Puffins are protected by a wide circle of people: research scientists, forage fish ecologists, colony caretakers and rescuers, along with the painters, photographers and writers who make people care about them. Each person has a profile showing what they do, and many have more than one role. Visitors can filter the guardians directory by any role, so finding everyone who studies puffin diet, or everyone who carves them in wood, takes one click.

work worth sharing

The resource library collects the best work on puffins in one place. It holds new books like The Great Auk and Seabirds as Sentinels, field photography, a hand-carved wood inlay and news coverage of seabird die-offs. Every entry is tagged by topic, format and the person who made it, so a researcher looking for papers and a teacher looking for images can each find what they need.

Resources

Scientific papers, K-12 curricula, videos, books, and artwork all live in one resource library, each tagged by type and linked to the person who made it. Visitors can browse the whole collection by format or topic, and researchers can submit new papers through a form that feeds straight into the library.

FIELDS Title Resource type Creator Topic Description File or link Audience

inspired by puffin and sea

The World Puffin Congress palette draws directly from the puffin’s own world – the cold Atlantic, the dramatic coastal cliffs, and the bird’s unmistakable coloring. Shades of blue anchor the brand in the open ocean, while a warm, saturated orange-red pulls from the puffin’s iconic beak, giving the brand an immediate visual connection to the animal at the center of everything.

Shew Design is run by Eric and Becca Shew, who shared their combined expertise in graphic and web design to help me, a novice in both areas, design and build an environmental conservation non-profit web site from scratch. I presented my ambitious ideas for a website, and they walked me step-by-step through the process, and passed on the knowledge I need to maintain and grow the site in the future. They continue to play a supportive role. With Shew Design, you don’t just get IT service, you get advice and leadership from partners with decades of experience who value nature and believe in conservation. I trust them.