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 ...

Atlantic puffins range the entire North Atlantic Ocean with approximately 60 percent of the world's puffins breeding in and around Iceland. On this side of the pond, ...

Atlantic puffins also breed in parts of the northeastern U.S., the U.K. and northern Europe. Lifelong monogamous pairs return to the same burrow each year and lay a single egg.

Though puffins endured elsewhere in their historic range—the North Atlantic coasts of Canada, Greenland, Iceland and Britain—by the 1960s the puffin was all but forgotten in Maine.

There is one animal present in our greater backyard that I urge everyone to try to see at least once in the wild − the Atlantic puffin.

Atlantic puffins, affectionately dubbed the “clowns of the sea,” are distinctive seabirds known for black and white feathers and a vibrant multicolored bill. They live and breed across the ...

E ASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — On a recent balmy afternoon, at the extreme southern end of their range, a steady stream of Atlantic puffins, with their unmistakable tuxedo plumage and orange webbed ...

How to see puffins in Maine. Only six miles from shore, Eastern Egg Rock is one of Maine’s most popular islands for puffin watching. You can get to the island by taking a tour from Boothbay or ...

When they make their first journey into the ocean, fledgling Atlantic puffins are prone to being stranded on land, imperiling them. For years, scientists have wondered what leads to these strandings.