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Puffins are amazing animals. Except during nesting, puffins spend most of their lives on the open ocean. These beautiful birds are very good swimmers, which allows them to catch their diet of small ...
Between October 2016 and January 2017, the carcasses of hundreds of severely emaciated seabirds, mostly tufted puffins, washed onto the beaches of St. Paul Island, off Alaska. Not all birds that die ...
The large number of deaths of tufted puffins on St. Paul Island, in the Bering Sea off the Alaska coast, have raised more concerns about the effects of climate change. Credit: Isaac Sanchez/CC-BY-2.0 ...
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.