Smallest of the four puffin species, they have come en masse ... puffins use that gaudy beak and their webbed feet to dig a burrow in the soft earth. (In some locations the birds nest among ...

Puffin parents can supply their young with fish ... they use their legs to fling the soil into the air behind them as they dig. Inside, there’s a nest of feathers and grass where they incubate ...

A puffin population has been declared "stable ... who were on their hands and knees checking burrows for signs of fresh digging or hatched eggshells. Earlier this week, five more species of ...