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

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 ...

Birds choose between loyalty and divorce in relationships. Staying together often helps breeding, but divorces can open ...

Follow the fortunes of a Scottish puffin colony across the 2019 breeding ... During the Middle Ages it’s thought that Muslim and Jewish scholars couldn’t determine if various birds including ...

Extreme weather events could also displace bird habitats, change the way they access food, and consequently impact the way ...

DESCRIPTION: Marbled murrelets are small, plump, puffin-like seabirds with short necks and ... They are commonly found inland during the summer breeding season, up to 50 miles from the ocean, where ...

Numbers of nine seabird species fell during this year’s breeding ... number of dead birds counted during avian flu years of 202 and 2023 were 2,156 adults and 3,821 chicks. Puffin numbers ...

Numbers of nine seabird species fell during this year’s breeding season on the ... The number of dead birds counted during avian flu years of 202 and 2023 were 2,156 adults and 3,821 chicks. Puffin ...