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Puffin season is back on the Oregon coast. The beautiful, beloved tufted puffins are expected back at Haystack Rock in Cannon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A pair of tufted puffins are likely nesting near Yaquina Head for the first time since the late ‘90s and ...

The puffins haven’t arrived yet, but their nesting season is about to begin. The Haystack Rock Awareness Program will hold a Puffin Welcome Celebration on April 18.

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 ...

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 ...

PROTECTION ISLAND — Once spread across the Salish Sea/Puget Sound, tufted puffins are now a rare sight in this area as their range contracts. Endangered in Washington state since 2015, there was only ...

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service deemed the tufted puffin unworthy of federal protection, despite declining population in Oregon and elsewhere. A tufted puffin is pictured at the Oregon Coast ...

Tufted puffins burrow all along the coastline of Kodiak Refuge during the summer. Wintering out to sea, they return to Kodiak each May to breed and nest. (Lisa Hupp/ USFWS) The tufted puffin, a black ...