Puffins are late arrivals to the island, joining the hundreds of thousands that swarm the island for the nesting season ...

In the Westman colony— birthplace of nearly one in four puffins in the North Atlantic today—the population has plunged by half since 2003. These heralds of the northern spring are now listed ...

Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

Apart from Iceland, puffins have a notably wide distribution, living on remote islands and rugged coastlines across the North Atlantic and North Pacific. These stocky seabirds also venture into the ...

Cliff tops, empty and dark for months, turn to commotion near the beginning of April with the arrival of antic, adorable-looking Atlantic puffins. Smallest of the four puffin species, they have ...

Atlantic puffins’ beaks are more reminiscent of birds ... is linked to food shortages in the North Sea. Some colony declines are linked to lack of food availability to breeding birds but it ...

In Maine, trips to view the puffins typically run from May through August, with the best viewing in June and July. Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only ...