PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A pair of tufted puffins are likely nesting near Yaquina Head for the first time since the late ‘90s and birders are gathering in Lincoln County to witness the homecoming. U.S.

Armed with enthusiasm, researchers and volunteers have joined forces to safeguard the flamboyant seabirds as climate change ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – It’s April, which means tufted puffins are making their grand return to the Oregon Coast. The beloved orange-billed birds come to Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach each Spring to ...

CANNON BEACH — The puffins are early risers, but so is Tim Halloran. For the past 12 years, he has spent most summer mornings — and many sunsets — with his binoculars aimed at a tufted puffin colony ...

THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA — The R/V Puffin sliced through uncharacteristically calm waters near Smith Island, a lopsided pancake of land often buffeted by wind and waves at the end of the strait.

A new study says thousands of tufted puffins are dying because of climate change.Get the full story in the video below ...

Just 553. That is the estimated number of individual Tufted Puffins remaining in Oregon, based on the 2021 coastwide survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). It’s a staggering ...

MONTEREY (BCN) -- Birth of the first tufted puffin to be bred at the Monterey Bay Aquarium was announced last week by aquarium officials. The chick hatched on July 19 from an egg laid in June. The ...

The tufted puffin, an iconic seabird that can often be spotted at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach during nesting season, will not be listed under the federal Endangered Species Act despite local efforts ...

MONTEREY — The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Open Sea wing has a brand new resident never before seen on the facility’s premises: a tufted puffin chick. While the chick is the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s first ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium has a new reason to puff out its chest — its first-ever hatching of a tufted puffin chick. The chick — a female — hatched July 19 as part of the aquarium’s first attempt to breed ...