There are four species of puffins: Atlantic, horned, tufted and (despite the misleading name) rhinoceros auklets. They live ...

Cliff tops, empty and dark for months, turn to commotion near the beginning of April with the arrival of antic, adorable-looking Atlantic puffins. Smallest of the four puffin species, they have ...

Our Atlantic puffin is the smallest and looks fairly similar to the Horned Puffin, which breeds along the Alaska-British Columbia border. The easiest way to tell the two apart is by their beaks.

But last month, to employees' surprise, they treated one species they had yet to encounter: a puffin. “We often get people who tell us they ... first recording of an Atlantic puffin in Volusia ...

There will be no siblings to snatch the bit from the hatchling’s mouth. Atlantic puffins in Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, the largest breeding colony of the species in North America.