Iceland's remote Westland Islands are home to the world's largest puffin colony. Every year, puffin chicks get disorientated by light pollution and crash inland rather than flying out to sea. Locals ...
It’s that time of year again. No, we’re not talking about back-to-school – it’s throw a puffin off a cliff season, duh! In Iceland, as summer draws to a close, obliging locals give baby puffins a ...
Throwing thousands of baby puffins off a cliff is a yearly tradition for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. It's part of what's known as... Watching thousands of baby puffins being tossed off a ...
There’s a new member of the pasta-themed puffin family at Baltimore’s National Aquarium. The baby puffin, named Spaghetti, hatched on July 18 and joins siblings Penne, Ziti, Gnocchi, Ravioli, and ...
The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland has welcomed a new baby puffin named Macaroni. The adorable seabird joins siblings Gnocchi and Ravioli in the Sea Cliffs exhibit. Each family of puffins at ...
Watching thousands of baby puffins being tossed off a cliff is perfectly normal for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. This yearly tradition is what's known as "puffling season" and the practice ...
Every year during the late summer, locals on a remote island off the coast of Iceland spend their evenings searching for disorientated puffin chicks — known as pufflings — and throw them off a cliff's ...