puffins now abound on Maine’s rocky ocean islands, where you can spot them starting in April. These islands are the only nesting sites for Atlantic Puffins in the U.S., as the population is at ...

Take an amazing road trip through Maine in fall. Take a boat tour of Petit Manan Island for captivating views of puffins, laughing gulls, razorbills, terns, black guillemots and common eiders.

Psst—these are the best ways to see puffins in Maine. Standing 10 inches tall, Atlantic puffins weigh about a pound. Their feathers resemble a crisp, black-and-white tuxedo and offset a comical ...

Assemblages vary from a few hundred pairs in Maine to tens of thousands ... such as Skomer Island in Wales. For reasons not totally understood, puffin numbers here are increasing, the burrows ...

The best time to spot puffins is from April through August, when the puffins return to the islands to breed. In Maine, puffins have been recorded nesting on seven islands, with the largest ...