In an extract from his new book, the nature historian explains how technology could help the seabird survive ...

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, ...

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 second ...

Preacher, sea parrot, lundy, bottle nose, little friar, clown of the sea: you can tell how much humans love something by the ...

Scientists studying the Atlantic puffin population off the coast of Maine say the birds are now recovering after suffering major losses in 2021. Atlantic puffins look and walk similarly to penguins.

The brisk increase in warming rates in the Arctic is bringing rapid shifts in range for plants and animals across the region’s tree of life. Researchers say those changes can lead species that ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Atlantic puffin off the Isles of Shoals, in Rye, in January 2024. A puffin is an uncommon sight in New Hampshire year-round, ...

In the must-see video above, an Atlantic puffin chick that hatched this summer was “fully integrated” with the rest of the colony at New York City’s Central Park Zoo by December 6, caretakers said.

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 ...