The puffins are laying eggs on the cliff. Puffins, also known as sea parrots, are members of the auk family. The Kodiak ...

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 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.

SITKA — Saint Lazaria is a rocky 65-acre island adjacent to Mount Edgecumbe, about 15 miles west of Sitka. No people live there, but the wilderness wonderland is home to hundreds of thousands of ...

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 ...

Earlier, it was murres and whales that had been turning up dead in large numbers on Alaska beaches or in Alaska waters. Now it is puffins, bright-beaked birds that are icons of Alaska's marine ...

The exhibit “Celebrating Alaska’s Birds” is currently on view at Well Street Art Company in conjunction with the Alaska Bird Conference, a gathering of bird researchers. The group show offers an ...