There are two species of seahorse in the British Isles – the short-snouted seahorse and the spiny seahorse. Both species are ...

The Steller’s sea eagle continues its residency at North River, Conception Bay. The bird is being seen daily from Snows Road ...

Puffins come to nest on Haystack Rock between April and September every year. This week, Cannon Beach is offering visitors a ...

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An Atlantic puffin flies by a decoy on Eastern Egg Rock, off the coast of Maine, in July 2019. The use of decoys helped attract puffins back to the island during a restoration project.

The UK-based puffins like to nest in grassy burrows or crevices, in seaside cliffs, and are excellent swimmers which helps them capture small fish and, particularly, sand eels.

The Atlantic puffins that nest in the burrows of Seal Island spend about four months ashore to nest and raise their puffling offspring, which takes about six to seven weeks after they hatch.

By 1901, only a single pair of Atlantic puffins was known to nest in the United States—on Matinicus Rock, a barren island 20 miles from the Maine coast. Wildlife enthusiasts paid the lighthouse ...

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 ...

To see the real birds, however, tourists must join puffin tours which take them to islands where the puffins flock to nest in the summer months. But visitors also want to eat them.

Many bird species created lifelong bonds through intricate courtship behaviors. The article explored eight monogamous birds, ...