A puffin seeking a higher perch flew down and landed on it. Zoeller yanked the string, a trap door opened, and the bird helplessly flapped as it dropped to a pillow at the bottom.

By 1901, puffins were down to a final pair on a sole island, Matinicus Rock, an island 25 miles out to sea from the coastal town of Rockland. Early conservationists protected those last puffins on ...

By 1901, puffins were down to a final pair on a sole island, Matinicus Rock, an island 25 miles out to sea from the coastal town of Rockland. Early conservationists protected those last puffins on ...

So how did you come to be photographing puffins in Maine? I was a one-man New England bureau for Newsday from ’85 to ’88, and Maine was always my favorite state for its amazing range of both people ...

In the early 1900s, these harlequin-faced ducks nested by the thousands as far south as the Channel Islands, but oil spills and the collapse of sardine populations because of overfishing have left ...

Their numbers have been declining -- down by a third or more, he says, just since 2002. "The species is still very abundant in the Atlantic, but when you have these long-term declines, then you ...

Maine Puffin colonies in Maine recover, 'population is stable, and it could still be growing' Following a catastrophic 2021, the puffins in Maine rebounded for a 2nd year in a row ...

Down East enabled me to finish my puffins with more information than I had from other research. Can you give us an idea of the project’s scale? The block of imperial marble I’m working from weighs 23 ...

Puffins love small fish and sand eels and can often be seen with a beak full. ... Alternatively, use a single focus point and continuous focussing to follow it down to the ground. 3) ...