From a bird blind on Seal Island, puffins zoomed in from the sea with a rainbow of fish drooping from their beaks. They carried copper and golden juvenile haddock, redfish and white hake. Others had ...

VINALHAVEN, Maine — It has been a stressful week for the residents of Burrow 59 on Seal Island National Wildlife Refuge. The end of May marks the end of egg-laying season for puffins, which means the ...

Each spring, the Farne Islands off England's Northumberland coast transform into a seabird heaven, with puffins center stage. This year, to mark the 100th anniversary of the National Trust's ...

While Skomer Island in Wales often gets the headlines for its puffin colony, I’ve discovered an Irish outpost that is home to a large colony and is easier to visit. A friend of mine has long disputed ...

On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and waddling gaits — had their ...

Rocky, windswept Eastern Egg Rock, about 6 miles off the coast of Maine, was once a haven for a hugely diverse bird population. But in the 1800s, fishermen decimated the birds' ranks — for food and ...

An Atlantic puffin brings a beak full of baitfish to feed its chick in a burrow under rocks on Eastern Egg Rock, a small island off mid-coast Maine, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2023. Scientists who monitor ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. A horn-like chortle rings out across the water, echoed by hundreds of other chatty calls. You are approaching a puffin colony. These unique ...

Puffin numbers on the internationally important Farne Islands have plummeted by almost a quarter, a new survey reveals. The National Trust, which manages the Northumberland coast islands, reported ...

Puffins have been seen on the Isle of Muck, external in County Antrim for the first time in years, after a major scheme to remove invasive brown rats. It is the first time the vulnerable seabird has ...