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 ...

One of the only places visitors can see puffins in the United States is a tiny island off the coast of Maine where the birds ...

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.

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 ...

And while many vacationers travel here to catch sight of moose and puffins, whale watching is a popular activity in Maine, too. A guided tour will put you in the hands of an experienced local who ...

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 ...