For most of the year, puffins vanish into the open ocean and live like ghosts. But for a few chaotic weeks each summer, these ...

GRIMSEY ISLAND, Iceland — Puffins are in trouble. The birds have been in precipitous decline, especially since the 2000s, both in Iceland and across many of their Atlantic habitats. The potential ...

THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA — The R/V Puffin sliced through uncharacteristically calm waters near Smith Island, a lopsided pancake of land often buffeted by wind and waves at the end of the strait.

At night, Kress hid behind boulders observing the burrows, sometimes glimpsing a young puffin as it hopped into the water and paddled out to sea. Because young puffins spend a few years at sea before ...

I thought there was only one boat service in Maine that would take people to view the adorable pelagic seabird, the Atlantic puffin. Well, I was wrong. Boat Coast Charter Co. is the only company ...