Puffin parents can supply their young with fish more than 100 times a day. 3. Puffin beaks glow under UV light If you thought the puffins couldn’t get any more impressive, in January 2018 ...

Their beaks grow thicker and brighter ... Unlike penguin colonies, often cramped, loud, and peckish, a puffin gathering is mostly mellow and quiet. In the British Isles, where puffins have ...

Once they’ve successfully loaded up their beaks, they’ll return to shore or the cliffs to eat or feed their young. While the ...

Jamie Dunning, an ornothologist, shows Ben a ground breaking discovery when he shines an ultraviolet light on a puffin’s beak revealing the beak glows with fluorescence. And the reason?

Under these drastically changing conditions, the struggle to survive favored the larger birds with deep, strong beaks for opening the hard seeds. Smaller finches with less-powerful beaks perished.

Puffin crossings look and function in a similar way to Pelican crossings, but there are some key differences to be aware of. Pedestrians will still see a black and yellow box with a button on it ...

Scientists have pieced together the skull of a strange ancient bird, revealing a primitive beak lined with teeth. The "transitional" bird sheds light on a pivotal point in the pathway from ...

Puffin breeding season on Pembrokeshire's Skomer Island is drawing to a close and the birds will soon return to sea once more. More than 38,000 Atlantic puffins began to arrive on the 720-acre ...

There's a story about puffin conservation too – telling how new legislation banning the industrial fishing of sand eels (a vital food source for puffins) will help the bird's numbers bounce back.

Puffin Rock follows the adventures of a family of puffins living on a wild and beautiful Irish island. Oona, an adventure-loving young puffling, and the hero of the show, explores the island with her ...

Melbourne’s 50-pound celebrity chick is molting, revealing adult feathers beneath his iconic brown fluff. Here’s what to expect as he waddles into adulthood.

For example, the cactus finch has a long beak that reaches into blossoms, the ground finch has a short beak adapted for eating seeds buried under the soil, and the tree finch has a parrot-shaped ...