Annette Fayet was scanning a colony of Atlantic puffins off the coast of Wales when something caught her eye. A puffin, gently bobbing on the sea, held a stick in its orange-black bill. Then, the ...

After months at sea, the orange-beaked birds are gathering along coastal cliffs in a short but sensational migration.

Perhaps puffins aren't as bird-brained as previously believed. A team of animal experts observed two Atlantic puffins, more than 1,000 miles apart, spontaneously scratching themselves with sticks — ...

There have been rare observations of puffins using sticks in a way that may indicate tool use, a behavior not previously documented in this species. Using a stick once thought to be just for nest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From a bird blind on Seal Island, puffins zoomed in from the sea with a rainbow of fish drooping from their beaks. They carried ...

Perhaps puffins aren’t as bird-brained as previously believed. A team of animal experts observed two Atlantic puffins, more than 1,000 miles apart, spontaneously scratching themselves with sticks — ...

MIAMI (WSVN) - Veterinarians in Miami are taking care of a little bird after he was rescued by lifeguards who found him injured very far from home. The feathered visitor is an Atlantic puffin that was ...

150 dead puffins have been reported this month via a British bird tracking scheme Hundreds of dead and dying seabirds - including puffins, guillemots and razorbills - are washing up on British beaches ...

I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers ...

A camera trap in Iceland captured video of an Atlantic puffin using a stick to scratch itself. The discovery, along with a similar observation in Wales in 2014, is the first evidence of tool use in ...

Every summer, a handful of interns and research assistants are selected from hundreds of applicants to camp in primitive conditions on a tiny, treeless island several miles off Maine's coast. Their ...