A thriving puffin population. Skomer Island is renowned for its wide range of seabirds. But the number of puffins breeding here is attracting international interest. They've been in decline in other ...

Juveniles have all-dark bills. As the bird ages, the bill grows larger and acquires more grooves. A tufted puffin is the largest species and most distinctive in appearance. A tufted puffin is all ...

But it’s far more than decorative. Puffin beaks are specially adapted with grooves and spines (denticles) that allow them to carry multiple small schooling fish at a time without dropping any. This is ...

Puffin strandings during the fledgling season ... colorful beak as it takes about 4-5 years for the beak to enlarge and develop grooves, and the number of grooves gives an indication of the ...

It’s hard not to love the tufted puffin. Just a little bigger than a football and not altogether different in shape, this bird’s bright orange beak and mad scientist-like tufts make it a ...

One question keeps surfacing this month, as reports of a certain quirky and beloved seabird keep popping up along Florida's east coast: A puffin? The black and white seabirds with the bright ...

Each spring, the Farne Islands off England's Northumberland coast transform into a seabird heaven, with puffins center stage. This year, to mark the 100th anniversary of the National Trust's ...

Tufted puffins have been disappearing from Oregon’s shores at an alarming rate, according to the Bird Alliance of Oregon, dropping from nearly 5,000 in 1998 to only 553 in 2021.

The National Parks and Wildlife Service has said there is evidence to suggest that puffins have left Sceilg Mhichíl off the Co Kerry coast a few days earlier than previous years, but do not yet ...