You don't have to leave the U.S. to see puffins in the wild. Head to this island in Maine to observe the black-and-white ...

After pairing up, often with the same partner as in previous years, puffins use that gaudy beak and their webbed feet to dig a burrow in the soft earth. (In some locations the birds nest among ...

The little pufflings are more likely to go astray and get stranded when there is light pollution — the lucky ones are ...

In Iceland, the Faroe Islands and other parts of Europe, where the Atlantic puffin is listed as endangered on the European Red List of Birds, strandings have increasingly become a concern for ...

Atlantic puffins’ beaks are more reminiscent of birds that live in the rainforest than on chilly cliffs. Bright orange or red, with blue and white streaks, it’s obvious why they’ve been ...

Following a programme to eradicate the rats, an annual "decoy puffin" project, which sees models placed on cliff tops along with a sound system playing the bird's call, was set up in 2016 in a bid ...

Holidaymakers flock to this beautiful part of Yorkshire which, thanks to its wild birds and pristine coasts, is giving the ...

Bird lovers can now get a glimpse of a pair of puffins' underground home life in real time. A webcam has been installed in the nest of the couple on Coquet Island, off the Northumberland coast.

The row was triggered when Britain barred EU fishermen from catching sand eels in English and Scottish waters last March ...

The first survey of the colourful birds in five years has found that puffin numbers are up 15 per cent to an estimated 50,000 pairs last year on the Farne Islands, compared to 44,000 in 2019.