Watching “Titanic” the night before may not have been the best idea, but it took only a minute to get sucked right back into the story until its bittersweet end three hours later. The next day at New ...

Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the success of Project Puffin, which worked to restore puffins to Eastern Egg ...

Kress went to work preparing a place for puffin chicks on Eastern Egg Rock, a seven-acre granite island about eight miles off the coast of Bremen, Maine. Officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and ...

There are four species of puffins: Atlantic, horned, tufted and (despite the misleading name) rhinoceros auklets. They live along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Psst—these ...

EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — On a recent balmy afternoon, at the extreme southern end of their range, a steady stream of Atlantic puffins, with their unmistakable tuxedo plumage and orange webbed feet, ...

EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine -- A puffin hops up onto a rock, notices another puffin standing on one leg nearby, and waddles over to join him. The fact that the one-legged bird is a wooden decoy doesn't ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Some people went to church on Sunday morning. Me, I drove to Aurora to meet a six-toed dog from Norway whose ancestor’s hobby was climbing cliffs to chow on ...