As a volunteer, Tim Halloran spent many mornings pointing out tufted puffin activity to visitors. Every summer for the past 12 years, Friends of Haystack Rock volunteer Tim Halloran has risen ...

Unlike Cassin's and Rhinoceros auklets, Tufted Puffins have a diurnal pattern of activity on the colony, but like their smaller relatives, they too nest in earthen burrows in which the female lays a ...

There are four species of puffins: Atlantic, horned, tufted and (despite the misleading name) rhinoceros auklets. They live ...

Nearly 80 percent were Tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata), they reported in PLOS ONE on May 29. The authors state that the animals were emaciated. Shifts in zooplankton communities and fish ...

Every summer for the past 12 years, Friends of Haystack Rock volunteer Tim Halloran has risen early to go to the beach and watch tufted puffins swoop, dive and nest above the vast blue backdrop of ...