Puffins rest in larger numbers in Canada, Scotland, Greenland, Norway, and Iceland, which is home to half of the global puffin population. Puffins nest on rocky, isolated islands that have the ...

As mentioned earlier, the Norwegian Lundehund was bred to hunt puffins, hence its name. In Norway, puffins were considered an important source of food for locals living along the Scandinavian coasts.

Concern, however, is starting to shadow the faces of those who study puffins. In the past decade most populations have been declining. Certain colonies in Iceland, Norway, and likely Scotland’s ...

The birds themselves—puffins, gannets, gulls ... off the uppermost cape of coastal Norway, high above the Arctic Circle. The boat pitches and heaves in the rockbound channels, and I rediscover ...

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