puffins can do one thing that penguins can't: they can fly. Penguins use their flippers to "fly" underwater, but they cannot ...

The most significant difference between them, however, is that puffins can fly. Despite their small size, Puffins can beat their wings over 400 times per minute! These social birds prefer the ...

The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...

For reasons not totally understood, puffin numbers here are increasing, the burrows full. Come August, the colony’s chicks reliably depart, waddling down the steep slopes to swim and fly away ...

As puffins fly in from the sea with beaks full of sand eels, the greedy gulls wait to snatch the fish they have worked so hard to catch. It all happens in a flash, so we wanted to reveal the ...