Editor's note. The following is a reprised edition of Nature News, first published in July 2023. There is one animal present in our greater backyard that I urge everyone to try to see at least once in ...

EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine — On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful bills and ...

From a bird blind on Seal Island, puffins zoomed in from the sea with a rainbow of fish drooping from their beaks. They carried copper and golden juvenile haddock, redfish and white hake. Others had ...

"Outside of the breeding season, you’ll likely need to take a pelagic birding trip well offshore to find one." ...

A family in Wrentham made a rare discovery in their backyard when they spotted an Atlantic puffin Sunday. The seabird species<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Congress of the Birds is accustomed to unusual calls, but this week's arrival may be one of their rarest patients to date.

A good Samaritan recently found a bird that at least one animal control officer has never seen in Massachusetts before.

Ecosystem-based fisheries management, which considers the interactions between fisheries, target species, and the physical and biological components of ecosystems, is necessary to ensure that directed ...

Maine's puffins are the only breeding Atlantic puffins in the U.S. Worldwide, the species lives in the North Atlantic from Maine and Canada to Europe. Other countries with large puffin populations, ...