Puffins are arriving in the Westman Islands
The first puffins arrived in the Westman Islands yesterday as far as vigilant birdwatchers can tell. The birds are gathering at their breeding grounds...
A very determined puffin (Video)
Its no easy task to prepare for your young as this industrious puffin clearly demonstrates in his struggle to line his puffin burrow. He wasn’t about ...
Skyrocketing mackerel numbers around Iceland blamed for puffin crash
Increasing sea temperature and growing mackerel numbers around Iceland are having a direct impact on the collapse of sand eel populations upon which b...
Iceland’s puffin stock in crisis
If the patterns of recent years continue, Iceland’s Westman Islands could lose their famous puffin colony altogether. The reason is a collapse i...
Seabird numbers dropping around Iceland
There has been another significant decrease in the numbers some species of cliff birds around Iceland. The situation of some populations, such as puff...
Icelandic puffins in worrying decline
The puffin population in Iceland’s Westman Islands has fallen so dramatically over recent years that the species will likely be put on the IUCN (Inter...
Nearly all puffin chicks dead
Frettabladid reports that two young residents of Iceland’s Westman Islands, Sunna Georgsdottir and Anna Mary Gudmundsdottir found four pufflings Sunda...