Atlantic puffins spend much of their lives beyond human view, scattered across the cold waters of the North Atlantic. They only return to land during breeding season, and even then, only in remote ...

Five decades after a graduate student’s rescue plan that people had scoffed at, a thriving ecotourism economy has taken ...

Atlantic puffins spend most of their lives out on the ocean, but each April the urge to breed draws the black-and-white creatures back to land by the score. These large coastal colonies breed, nest, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A lecture on puffins will expand their image as cute, fluffy seabirds to tough, agile and resilient survivors of the harsh northern seas. John Piatt, Ph.D., director of the World ...

Few wildlife sightings on the Maine coast rival the excitement of seeing an Atlantic Puffin. With bright orange feet, colorful bills, and comically serious expressions, puffins have become one of the ...