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Zoe Buchli’s article “Puffins rule supreme around Haystack Rock” (Discover Our Coast, June 26) is a welcome and generally fine report on these wonderful birds, but it contains two substantial errors.

When I was a kid, my family would take summer road trips to the Oregon Coast, where a favorite stop was always Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach. The 250-foot-high, grassy behemoth of an outcropping just ...