Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is one animal present in our greater backyard that I urge everyone to try to see at least once in the wild − the Atlantic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic puffins making a comeback after devastating year of insufficient food: ‘They are messengers of what’s happening at sea’ ...

Five decades after a graduate student’s rescue plan that people had scoffed at, a thriving ecotourism economy has taken ...

Atlantic puffins spend much of their lives beyond human view, scattered across the cold waters of the North Atlantic. They only return to land during breeding season, and even then, only in remote ...

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 waddling gaits—had their second ...

Every August, volunteers and locals near Witless Bay, N.L., form the Puffin Patrol and search for stranded pufflings led ...

Set sail along Maine’s coast for puffin sightings, seabird surprises, expert naturalists, and a closer look at an ...

On Eastern Egg Rock, off Maine's coast, researchers label favored hangouts to help track the birds and monitor their behavior. José Azel Impossibly cute, with pear-shaped bodies, beak and eye markings ...

We humans used to think that our ability to use tools made us different from all other animals. But then we found out that chimps use tools, too, such as twigs to gather termite snacks and rocks to ...

This story appears in the June 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Here they come, wings beating like a manic pulse, bodies a blur of black and white, a flash ...