An Atlantic puffin was seen in the coastal waters of New Hampshire on Aug. 2 and is included in the New Hampshire Audubon's Rare Bird Alert for Aug. 8.The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) is also ...

First things first: Puffins are adorable. You don’t have to be an animal lover to be charmed by their clownish faces, their waddling walk, and their chubby-dumpling bodies. Their fluffy chicks make ...

Annette Fayet was scanning a colony of Atlantic puffins off the coast of Wales when something caught her eye. A puffin, gently bobbing on the sea, held a stick in its orange-black bill. Then, the ...

One question keeps surfacing this month, as reports of a certain quirky and beloved seabird keep popping up along Florida's east coast: A puffin? The black and white seabirds with the bright orange ...

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Straddling the United States and Canada, the small and wondrous Machias Seal Island entices visitors with the clamorous calls of thousands of seabirds gathered together in harmony. A visit to the ...

On Eastern Egg Rock, off Maine's coast, researchers label favored hangouts to help track the birds and monitor their behavior. José Azel Impossibly cute, with pear-shaped bodies, beak and eye markings ...

Birds that dive for their prey can spend hours in the water chasing fish. After each fish is caught, it is consumed on the ...

After contorting under boulders for puffin chicks, chasing skittish tern chicks in the weeds and sitting as stone-silent sentinels in bird blinds to observe feeding and behavior, the five-person ...