The puffin population in Maine represents just 1% of the total population. Puffins rest in larger numbers in Canada, Scotland, Greenland, Norway, and Iceland, which is home to half of the global ...

People Are Throwing Baby Puffins Off Of Cliffs In Iceland–But It’s Not What It Sounds Like. ByMary Whitfill Roeloffs. ... Puffins have also been impacted by an increasing occurrence of extreme ...

The Maine puffin population once dwindled to only about 70 pairs on tiny Matinicus Rock. Hunters who pursued the birds for their meat and feathers had nearly wiped them out by the early 1900s.

It’s puffin-counting season–and you can watch. Bird monitors on the Farne Islands off the northeastern coast of England are tallying the roughly 200,000 seabirds that return to this important ...

By Derrick Z. Jackson From our April 2023 Animals issue. Atlantic puffins in Maine represent a globally recognized victory in wildlife conservation — and they offer a poignant warning about climate ...