T here are some animals out there that are so cute you can mistake them for cartoon characters. This includes pretty much all ...

Puffins are enchanting little seabirds. Here are 9 fascinating facts about puffins and their marvellous, yet sometimes challenging, lives in the wild.

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

Reaching an average of 30 years, puffins, like all long-lived birds, “can afford to skip the breeding cycle for a few years until conditions improve,” he says. “But the current long run of ...

Overfishing of small fish has led to population declines in the birds that feed on them. Now the UK government's attempts to ...

So yes, penguins are the bigger birds. Big penguin species rarely weigh less than 80 lbs. In terms of length, they can be anything from 10 inches to 4 feet tall. Puffins: Like I said, puffins don ...

Atlantic puffins’ beaks are more reminiscent of birds that live in the rainforest than on chilly cliffs. Bright orange or red, with blue and white streaks, it’s obvious why they’ve been ...

DESCRIPTION: Marbled murrelets are small, plump, puffin-like seabirds with short necks and tails ... where they nest in old-growth coniferous forests. For nesting, the birds require forests with high ...

At sea, however, we were in the true home of seabirds -- large flocks near land, and a bird every few minutes ... about the size of a duck and include puffins, murres, guillemots, and the ...