Puffins lose the ability to fly for up to two months every year—twice as long as previously believed. Researchers at University College Cork (UCC) suggest the seabirds are vulnerable to winter storms ...

If you've ever seen a puffin, with its striking black-and-white feathers and vivid orange beak, you might have wondered: Are puffins penguins? The short answer is no, but the reasons why are as ...

Puffins look a lot like Emperor and King penguins – they have white bellies with black backs and waddle around on orange, webbed feet. Both have wings, but they use them for different purposes.

Puffins lose their ability to fly for up to two months each year, new research has found, which is twice as long as what was previously thought and leaves them vulnerable to winter storms. The ...

Every year, from April to July, thousands of puffins fly across the Atlantic and return to the same spot in Yorkshire. At RSPB Bempton Cliffs on the east coast, 3,000 of the distinctive seabirds ...

Iceland's remote Westland Islands are home to the world's largest puffin colony. Every year, puffin chicks get disorientated by light pollution and crash inland rather than flying out to sea. Locals ...

The puffins are early risers, but so is Tim Halloran. For the past 12 years, he has spent most summer mornings — and many sunsets — with his binoculars aimed at a tufted puffin colony on Cannon ...