Throwing thousands of baby puffins off a cliff is a yearly tradition for the people of Iceland's Westman Islands. It's part of what's known as "puffling season" and is a crucial life-saving endeavor.

In Iceland, humans throwing baby puffins is a good thing Welcome to puffling season. By Alisha McDarris Published Aug 10, 2024 8:10 AM EDT ...

A small, rocky island off Iceland is home to the world’s largest breeding colony of Atlantic puffins. When breeding season is in full swing, around 1.5 million adults pair up and nestle into ...

Iceland is rethinking puffin-eating traditions – but some tourists have not received the memo Some tourists choose to get close to whales and puffins by going on cruise tours, while others want ...

It’s puffling season on Heimaey, a volcanic island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago along the southern coast of Iceland. Just 4,500 people call the island home, but over a million puffin ...

Even though Northern Lights season is all but wrapped up, puffin season is just beginning! Plus, you won't find the frigid cold weather Iceland is known for, come May through the end of Summer.

I’m reading a memoir of a woman who ended up moving to Iceland after filming a documentary there in which she describes the arrival of her long-awaited things arriving in Eimskip shipping ...

It’s puffin -counting season–and you can watch. Bird monitors on the Farne Islands off the northeastern coast of England are tallying the roughly 200,000 seabirds that return to this important ...

A stranded puffin has been rescued after being found more than a hundred miles away from its natural coastal habitat.

The puffin population in Maine represents just 1% of the total population. Puffins rest in larger numbers in Canada, Scotland, Greenland, Norway, and Iceland, which is home to half of the global ...

Our visit to the island of Heimaey, in the Westman Islands, a ferry ride off Iceland, gave us a chance to rescue puffin chicks during ‘puffling season.’ ...