Well, the oldest known puffin in New Brunswick — and Canada — was found this week at 33 years old.

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

If the puffins are just standing around, you can get away with slower, but I would always aim to keep a shutter speed of around 1/1000 anyway, in case the puffin suddenly does something surprising.

Maine is definitely one of the best birdwatching destinations in the U.S. Not only is it a great place to spot eagles, owls, egrets, and shorebirds — it's also the only state in America with islands ...

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.

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 ...

AllAboutBirds.org describes the Atlantic Puffin as "a sharply dressed black-and-white seabird with a huge, multicolored bill, the Atlantic Puffin is often called the clown of the sea." This album ...

Puffins, often affectionately dubbed as the ‘sea parrots’ or the ‘clowns of the sea’, are enchanting little seabirds. Here are 9 fascinating facts about puffins and their marvellous, yet sometimes ...

Banner image: An Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, Wales. In the western Atlantic, puffins have drastically declined in recent years, partly due to climate change.

Depending on the species, puffins range from about 10 to 16 inches tall, making them significantly smaller than most penguins. They typically only weigh a few pounds. Their plumage is predominantly ...

Puffins are small seabirds belonging to the Alcidae family. There are four species of puffins: the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), the Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata), the Horned Puffin ...

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