You couldn't get much further from the rat race here.

The most notable feature, at least in silhouette, is the lighthouse that sticks up from the island’s western edge like a toothpick.

After contorting under boulders for puffin chicks, chasing skittish tern chicks in the weeds and sitting as stone-silent sentinels in bird blinds to observe feeding and behavior, the five-person ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

ST GEORGE, Maine — Maine has a puffin population thanks to one determined researcher who hatched a plan more than 50 years ago. His idea was to take newly hatched puffins—also known as pufflings—from ...

Editor's note. The following is a reprised edition of Nature News, first published in July 2023. There is one animal present in our greater backyard that I urge everyone to try to see at least once in ...

EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and ...