Between October 2016 and January 2017, the carcasses of hundreds of severely emaciated seabirds, mostly tufted puffins, washed onto the beaches of St. Paul Island, off Alaska. Not all birds that die ...

The large number of deaths of tufted puffins on St. Paul Island, in the Bering Sea off the Alaska coast, have raised more concerns about the effects of climate change. Credit: Isaac Sanchez/CC-BY-2.0 ...

Seabirds are an important indicator of marine ecosystem health—and in 2016, signs began to emerge that something was very, very wrong in the eastern Bering Sea. Around 350 dead seabirds, most of them ...

Puffins are amazing animals. Except during nesting, puffins spend most of their lives on the open ocean. These beautiful birds are very good swimmers, which allows them to catch their diet of small ...

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HOMER, Alaska. —- Tufted and horned puffins nesting on GullIsland are often visible in the morning, floating in the tranquilfishing waters near the commerce and hub of the Homer Spit. A study looking ...

Earlier, it was murres and whales that had been turning up dead in large numbers on Alaska beaches or in Alaska waters. Now it is puffins, bright-beaked birds that are icons of Alaska's marine ...