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.

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 ...

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 ...

This is the last in my series of columns linking the Arctic areas I have been visiting this summer with our New England backyards. One trip my birdwatching mom and I planned but never took was a ...

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 ...

Lee Cowan takes you off the coast of Iceland on a midnight mission that's become a tradition for all involved. It's called the Puffling Patrol, a group of volunteers lending the tiniest of helping ...