Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops.

On an island of windswept tundra in the Bering Sea, hundreds of miles from mainland Alaska, a resident sitting outside their ...

The diversity and number of breeding birds on islands with established ... Ecosystem Conservation Office shows a tufted puffin perched on the cliffs near the community of St. Paul on St. Paul Island, ...

Every year, locals throw puffin chicks off the cliffs for a few weeks at the end of summer! The animals are the symbol of ...

Puffin numbers on the Farne Islands has risen in the last four years despite the impact of bird flu, the National Trust has said. Trust rangers this year carried out their first full count of the ...

(AP) - A hospitalized patient in Missouri was infected with bird flu despite having had no known contact with dairy cows or other animals associated with an ongoing outbreak, health officials said ...

The first survey of the colourful birds in five years has found that puffin numbers are up 15 per cent to an estimated 50,000 pairs last year on the Farne Islands, compared to 44,000 in 2019.

The puffin population on the Farne Islands off the Northumberland coast has been declared “stable” after a devastating bird flu outbreak, the National Trust said. The charity’s team of ...