PROTECTION ISLAND — Once spread across the Salish Sea/Puget Sound, tufted puffins are now a rare sight in this area as their range contracts. Endangered in Washington state since 2015, there was only ...

Warmer temperatures and the official start of spring mark a new beginning for the tufted puffins as breeding season brings ...

MONTEREY (BCN) -- Birth of the first tufted puffin to be bred at the Monterey Bay Aquarium was announced last week by aquarium officials. The chick hatched on July 19 from an egg laid in June. The ...

THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA — The R/V Puffin sliced through uncharacteristically calm waters near Smith Island, a lopsided pancake of land often buffeted by wind and waves at the end of the strait.

THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA — The R/V Puffin sliced through uncharacteristically calm waters near Smith Island, a lopsided pancake of land often buffeted by wind and waves at the end of the strait.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A pair of tufted puffins are likely nesting near Yaquina Head for the first time since the late ‘90s and birders are gathering in Lincoln County to witness the homecoming. U.S.

Puffin season is back on the Oregon coast. The beautiful, beloved tufted puffins are expected back at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, where the 2026 Welcome the Puffins Celebration will take place from ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium has a new reason to puff out its chest — its first-ever hatching of a tufted puffin chick. The chick — a female — hatched July 19 as part of the aquarium’s first attempt to breed ...

MONTEREY — The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Open Sea wing has a brand new resident never before seen on the facility’s premises: a tufted puffin chick. While the chick is the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s first ...

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