Standing 10 inches tall, Atlantic puffins weigh about a pound. Their feathers resemble a crisp, black-and-white tuxedo and ...

For the breeding season puffins change their costume. Their beaks grow thicker and brighter, white feathers replace black ones, and eye ornaments appear, the face now like a Kabuki actor’s.

Puffins moult their feathers during their time at sea and shed all the colourful sheath that covers their beaks as well as ...

In winter puffins also moult away their wing feathers, rendering them flightless. They look so different and are so rarely seen in winter that in the past any scientists who did see them tended to ...

Puffins are many people's favourite bird and ... Apollo turned the raven’s feathers black in fury – which is apparently why all ravens are black today. This myth of ravens as messengers ...

Puffins are known as 'sea parrots' due to their brightly coloured bills and are mainly found on rocky coasts and offshore islands. Around 90% of the Atlantic puffin population are found in Europe; ...

Alderney Wildlife Trust says the number of puffins is good but they are still vulnerable One fibreglass puffin has stood outside The Book House in Thame for more than 50 years. A young puffin ...

The challenges faced by British seabirds including puffins featured in the first episode of Sir David Attenborough's new series Puffins at Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire have been affected by ...