After months at sea, the orange-beaked birds are gathering along coastal cliffs in a short but sensational migration.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

There are four species of puffins: Atlantic, horned, tufted and (despite the misleading name) rhinoceros auklets. They live along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Psst—these ...

But not to the rest of Maine. Islands that puffins had once inhabited had become enemy territory, occupied by colonies of large, aggressive, predatory gulls that thrived on the debris generated by a ...

A wildlife rescue in Chepachet, Rhode Island, is caring for a juvenile Atlantic puffin found in a Massachusetts backyard. The puffin was discovered about 40 miles from the ocean, likely blown off ...