That’s when fledging Atlantic puffins from North America’s largest colony of the species, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, leave their burrows for the first time. Under the cover of darkness ...

As part of our ad hoc Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife series, Thom Quinn describes a consequential meeting with a puffin, a ...

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 ...

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

Atlantic puffins’ beaks are more reminiscent of birds ... is linked to food shortages in the North Sea. Some colony declines are linked to lack of food availability to breeding birds but it ...