There are few birds in the northern hemisphere quite as striking and easily identifiable as a puffin. With its red-orange, yellow, and black beak, bold black and white feathers and perpetual puppy dog ...

Iceland's remote Westland Islands are home to the world's largest puffin colony. Every year, puffin chicks get disorientated by light pollution and crash inland rather than flying out to sea. Locals ...

Kyana Sue Powers Watching thousands of baby puffins being tossed off a cliff is perfectly normal for the people of Iceland’s Westman Islands. This yearly tradition is what's known as "puffling season" ...

NOT MANY CRITTERS... boast names that nobly reflect their particular character and spirit, but the tufted puffin most assuredly does. It's a striking seabird that does appear to be rather "puffed," ...

THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA — The R/V Puffin sliced through uncharacteristically calm waters near Smith Island, a lopsided pancake of land often buffeted by wind and waves at the end of the strait.

A wildlife rescue in Chepachet, Rhode Island, is caring for a juvenile Atlantic puffin found in a Massachusetts backyard. The puffin was discovered about 40 miles from the ocean, likely blown off ...