There Are Multiple Species of Puffins There are four species of puffins: Atlantic, horned, tufted and (despite the ...

For the breeding season puffins ... as in previous years, puffins use that gaudy beak and their webbed feet to dig a burrow in the soft earth. (In some locations the birds nest among rocks and ...

Puffin breeding season on Pembrokeshire's Skomer Island is drawing to a close and the birds will soon return to sea once more. More than 38,000 Atlantic puffins began to arrive on the 720-acre ...

Puffin nests on Alderney have trebled in number during the last 20 years. The positive trend began in 2005 when Alderney ...

Atlantic puffins at sea. The birds spend most of the year at sea and return to land only during the breeding season. Image by Laura Wolf via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). The IUCN Red List categorizes ...