TO SOME OF US, the tufted puffin is living, flying proof that Mother Nature — or whatever force causes creatures to evolve in garish plumages with inexplicable appendages — has a sense of humor. Go ...
PORT TOWNSEND — A lecture on puffins will expand their image as cute, fluffy seabirds to tough, agile and resilient survivors of the harsh northern seas. John Piatt, Ph.D., director of the World ...
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.
SEQUIM — John Platt and Ajay Varma will present “The Private Aleutian World of Tufted Puffins” at the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday. The program at the Dungeness River ...
Photographer’s description: “Bird-watching on a beautiful sunny day on a boat off Smith Island near Port Townsend, we spotted this tufted puffin flapping its wings while running along the water trying ...
Meet the mysterious birds nicknamed “the clowns of the sea” or “sea parrots.” Puffins certainly are cute and funny as they waddle about on land, but we know very little about them. That’s because ...
CANNON BEACH Ore. (KPTV) - Friends of Haystack Rock (FOHR) is hosting The Great Cannon Beach Puffin Watch from July 1 to July 4. The event is an opportunity for tourists and locals alike to catch a ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service deemed the tufted puffin unworthy of federal protection, despite declining population in Oregon and elsewhere. A tufted puffin is pictured at the Oregon Coast ...
People come from around the country to see the iconic seabirds on Haystack Rock, but the bird’s population is dropping at an alarming rate. Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock is perhaps the Oregon Coast’s ...
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