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 ...

A family birthday trip aboard the Hardy III became a close look at puffins, terns and one of Maine’s best-known seabird ...

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, ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Lundy Island has recorded its highest seabird numbers since the '30s after an ambitious project eliminated invasive rats ...

Researchers compiled a data set of seabird restoration projects, including those that used translocation and social attraction, from around the world. Ornithologist Stephen Kress pioneered ...

EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — On a recent balmy afternoon, at the extreme southern end of their range, a steady stream of Atlantic puffins, with their unmistakable tuxedo plumage and orange webbed feet, ...