During puffling season, Icelanders save baby puffins by throwing …
WEBSep 26, 2022 · Throwing thousands of baby puffins off a cliff is a yearly tradition for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. It's part of what's known as "puffling season" and is a crucial life-saving...
Puffins Are Making a Comeback in Maine | Smithsonian
WEBSep 6, 2023 · Atlantic puffins in Maine are recovering this year after facing a devastating breeding season in 2021. In that year, declining numbers of their fish prey led to only about a quarter of the...
Why it's perfectly normal to see baby puffins thrown off cliffs in ...
WEBSep 26, 2022 · Watching thousands of baby puffins being tossed off a cliff is perfectly normal for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. This yearly tradition is what's known as "puffling season" and the practice is a crucial, life-saving endeavor. The chicks of Atlantic puffins, or pufflings, hatch in burrows on high sea cliffs.
Maine’s puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change
WEBAug 29, 2023 · The encouraging news comes as the Audubon Society is celebrating its 50th anniversary of tending to Maine’s puffin colonies, which it restored from just a few dozen pairs. There are now as many as 3,000 birds, and the population is stable, Lyons said.
An Icelandic Town Goes All Out to Save Baby Puffins
WEBKids and senior citizens alike rally to rescue beloved young seabirds that have lost their bearings. Íris Dröfn Guðmundsdóttir (left) and her cousin Anton Ingi Eiríksson release pufflings ...
Climate change is causing problems for puffins : NPR
WEBOct 12, 2021 · The state's coastal bays and the Gulf of Maine is among the fastest-warming large water bodies on the planet, making the puffins' fate a test-case for how climate change could disrupt marine ...
Where Do Maine’s Atlantic Puffins Go for the Winter?
WEBFeb 12, 2016 · Secrets are thrilling, but when it comes to conservation, finding the answers pays off in a big way. Audubon scientists tracked breeding puffins from Maine to finally learn where they pass the colder months—in a maze of underwater canyons and mountains southeast of Massachusetts.
At Canada's largest Atlantic puffin colony, chicks are dying of ...
WEBOct 1, 2023 · The grim discovery connects the fate of the Atlantic puffin — which is not only the official bird of Newfoundland and Labrador, but a ubiquitous image in the province — with serious problems in...
UK's puffin protection laws at centre of post Brexit row - BBC
WEBThe endangered puffin - one of Britain’s most iconic seabirds - is at the centre of a row over the UK’s post Brexit freedoms. The UK recently banned fishing in the North Sea for the bird's...
Maine's puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change
WEBAug 29, 2023 · Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and waddling gaits — had their second consecutive rebound year for fledging chicks after suffering a catastrophic 2021, said scientists...