With All Hallows Eve rapidly approaching, I thought it was high time to explore the spookier side of birds. Specifically, ...

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 ...

Right now, groups of Icelanders are taking to the streets late at night, armed with cardboard boxes and torches, in search of the telltale white bellies of baby Atlantic puffins. Once caught, these ...

Crew members from the Audubon Seabird Institute worked to cull laughing gulls this spring and summer, part of an effort to ...

Puffins, seabirds that resemble halfpint penguins except that they can fly, were decimated in the late 1880s by hunters for their meat and feathers in Maine. By 1901, Maine had just one pair of ...