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CANNON BEACH — The puffins are early risers, but so is Tim Halloran. For the past 12 years, he has spent most summer mornings — and many sunsets — with his binoculars aimed at a tufted puffin colony ...

THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA — The R/V Puffin sliced through uncharacteristically calm waters near Smith Island, a lopsided pancake of land often buffeted by wind and waves at the end of the strait.

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 early to ...

People come from around the country to see the iconic seabirds on Haystack Rock, but the bird’s population is dropping at an alarming rate. Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock is perhaps the Oregon Coast’s ...

MONTEREY (BCN) -- Birth of the first tufted puffin to be bred at the Monterey Bay Aquarium was announced last week by aquarium officials. The chick hatched on July 19 from an egg laid in June. The ...

Just 553. That is the estimated number of individual Tufted Puffins remaining in Oregon, based on the 2021 coastwide survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). It’s a staggering ...

The tufted puffin, an iconic seabird that can often be spotted at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach during nesting season, will not be listed under the federal Endangered Species Act despite local efforts ...

The Tufted Puffins, those adorable black and white seabirds with the big feet and bright beaks, are coming home to Cannon Beach for the summer, and the city is throwing them a welcome home party. The ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium has a new reason to puff out its chest — its first-ever hatching of a tufted puffin chick. The chick — a female — hatched July 19 as part of the aquarium’s first attempt to breed ...

SEATTLE — TheSeattle Aquarium welcomed their newest resident, a tufted puffin chick. The young puffin is so fluffy that the aquarium calls the chick a "puffling." Hatched on August 3, this is the ...