Rare observations show Atlantic puffins holding sticks to reach itchy spots, suggesting tool-like behavior beyond nest ...

Puffins at Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge. Atlantic puffins have been having trouble successfully raising their chicks in warmer water. Photo courtesy USFWS/Flickr The new poster child ...

The country of Iceland is little more than a dot of lava lost in salt spray at the edge of the Arctic Circle. Parts of it are still steaming. Whole swaths are reminiscent of something from the Oort ...

In a typical day, the Marine Science Center in Ponce Inlet takes any number of injured seabirds, raptors or other bird species commonly found in Volusia County. But last month, to employees' surprise, ...

Annette Fayet was scanning a colony of Atlantic puffins off the coast of Wales when something caught her eye. A puffin, gently bobbing on the sea, held a stick in its orange-black bill. Then, the ...

Hundreds of seabirds clung to Williamson Rocks, a guano-covered cluster of stone and grass rising just above the high tide line in Burrows Bay, near Anacortes, Washington. The spectacle drew a flurry ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The new poster child for climate change had his coming-out party in June 2012, when ...

Iceland's remote Westland Islands are home to the world's largest puffin colony. Every year, puffin chicks get disorientated by light pollution and crash inland rather than flying out to sea. Locals ...