New research from the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology has used innovative technology to study causes of declines in puffin populations in the northeast Atlantic, and found that a lack of ...

The post The Bizarre Tongue Feature That Makes Puffins Master Fishers appeared first on A-Z Animals. Birds that dive for their prey can spend hours in the water chasing fish. After each fish is caught ...

A tufted puffin sits on St Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, Alaska. Credit: Education Images/UIG via Getty Images Puffins are dying in worryingly large numbers in Alaska and ...

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Little is known about how seabirds catch their food outside the breeding season but using modern technology, researchers have gained new insight into their feeding habits. Little is known about how ...

Birds that dive for their prey can spend hours in the water chasing fish. After each fish is caught, it is consumed on the spot, and the hunt continues until the bird has had their fill. One bird has ...