PROTECTION ISLAND — Once spread across the Salish Sea/Puget Sound, tufted puffins are now a rare sight in this area as their range contracts. Endangered in Washington state since 2015, there was only ...

Warmer temperatures and the official start of spring mark a new beginning for the tufted puffins as breeding season brings flocks along the coast. But this “circus” of puffins is on the decline, with ...

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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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. portrait view of Puffins birds with orange beaks at sunset. Latrabjarg cliff, Westfjords, Iceland.© bzzup/iStock via Getty Images ...

Puffin season is back on the Oregon coast. The beautiful, beloved tufted puffins are expected back at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, where the 2026 Welcome the Puffins Celebration will take place from ...

A tufted puffin sits on St Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, Alaska. Credit: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Puffins are dying in worryingly large numbers in Alaska and ...

MONTEREY — The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Open Sea wing has a brand new resident never before seen on the facility’s premises: a tufted puffin chick. While the chick is the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s first ...