As his ancestors have done for generations, Icelander Árni Hilmarsson catches an Atlantic puffin in a net called a háfur. Photo by Carsten Egevang/atlanticseabirds.info This article is from Hakai ...

GRIMSEY ISLAND, Iceland — Puffins are in trouble. The birds have been in precipitous decline, especially since the 2000s, both in Iceland and across many of their Atlantic habitats. The potential ...

Right now, groups of Icelanders are taking to the streets late at night, armed with cardboard boxes and torches, in search of the telltale white bellies of baby Atlantic puffins. Once caught, these ...

A small, rocky island off Iceland is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Atlantic puffins. When breeding season is in full swing, around 1.5 million adults pair up and nestle into burrows ...

EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — 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 ...

Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the success of Project Puffin, which worked to restore puffins to Eastern Egg ...

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 ...

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

(WJAR) — A young Atlantic puffin is resting at a Chepachet wildlife rehabilitation center after he was found in Wrentham on Sunday. Congress of the Birds Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Founder and ...