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

The favored small fish, like sand eels ... For reasons not totally understood, puffin numbers here are increasing, the burrows full. Come August, the colony’s chicks reliably depart, waddling ...

Puffin parents can supply their young with fish ... away a seabird’s sense of smell and found that birds could manage small trips to catch food and return to land but when it came to migration ...

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 ...

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