Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

The National Audubon Society began Project Puffin to reintroduce the birds to their historic nesting area in the Gulf of Maine. Using decoys, transplanted chicks, sound machines and even ...

Maine is the only US State where Atlantic Puffins breed - if you want to see them before they leave, you must take a tour during their short breeding window.

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 of orange from beaks ...

The best time to spot puffins is from April through August, when the puffins return to the islands to breed. In Maine, puffins have been recorded nesting on seven islands, with the largest ...