The Scottish SPCA has urged people not to touch any puffins found on beaches and instead call the charity for advice.

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 Egg ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Atlantic puffins spend much of their lives beyond human view, scattered across the cold waters of the North Atlantic. They only return to land during breeding season, and even then, only in remote ...

The best time to spot puffins is from April through August, when the puffins return to the islands to breed. In Maine, puffins have been recorded nesting on seven islands, with the largest colonies on ...