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 ...

A tufted puffin sits on St Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, Alaska. Credit: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Puffins are dying in worryingly large numbers in Alaska and ...

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 ...

Seabirds are an important indicator of marine ecosystem health—and in 2016, signs began to emerge that something was very, very wrong in the eastern Bering Sea. Around 350 dead seabirds, most of them ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Tufted puffins burrow all along the coastline of Kodiak Refuge during the summer. Wintering out to sea, they return to Kodiak each May to breed and nest. (Lisa Hupp/ USFWS) The tufted puffin, a black ...

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 ...

If you’ve never seen a puffin before, prepare to be surprised by their diminutive size, impressed by their diving capabilities and amused by their colourful beaks and sad eyes. The UK has 580,000 ...