Tufted puffins are a cold-water species that spend much of their lives at sea – except for a few months in the spring and summer when the birds come ashore to mate and nest.

People come from around the country to see the iconic seabirds on Haystack Rock, but the bird’s population is dropping at an alarming rate.

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Maine — In a span of fewer than six months, Mainers have seen two birds from far away make rare visits to the state's coast. The most recent? A tufted puffin. "Mind-blowingly ...

While the chick is the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s first attempt to breed tufted puffins, the bird, sometimes called a puffling, has already made an impression on her new home.

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 ...

On July 4th weekend, Margo received a text from our birding friends Nancy and Tim Walker of Boxford that included a close-up photo of a tufted puffin with the word ...

Otto Harter, 9, scopes out tufted puffins now nesting on Haystack Rock. On April 22, he was one of seven students from Fire Mountain School celebrating the birds' annual return to the rock. CANNON ...

Species Survival Plan, and aquarium aviculturists looked to the seaweed often used in sushi — that would be Nori, of course — ...

Oregon’s Haystack Rock is one of the last spots on the West Coast to see Tufted Puffins. For decades, bird lovers have traveled from all over the country to Cannon Beach's Haystack Rock, because ...

Tufted puffins, those adorable black and white birds with big orange beaks, experienced an unusual die-off in the Bering Sea in late 2016 through early 2017. Massive mortality events like this ...

A bird rarely seen in Maine has been sighted off the coast, according to a pair of birding experts. The tufted puffin was sighted by seabird biologists in June on Petit Manan, an island 2.5 miles ...