EASTERN EGG ROCK, Maine (AP) — On remote islands off the Maine coast, a unique bird held its own this year in the face of climate change. Atlantic puffins — clownish seabirds with colorful ...

Environment Maine’s puffin colonies recovering in the face of climate change The puffins — also known as “clowns of the sea” or “sea parrots” — nest in burrows and feed their chicks ...

The Gulf of Maine, which has puffin colonies on its islands, is warming faster than most of the world’s oceans, and some recent years have been especially warm.

An Atlantic puffin comes in for a landing while bringing in fish to feed its chick on Eastern Egg Rock, Maine, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2023. Robert F. Bukaty / AP ...

An Atlantic puffin brings a beak full of baitfish to feed its chick in a burrow under rocks on Eastern Egg Rock, a small island off mid-coast Maine, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2023.

The Maine puffin population once dwindled to only about 70 pairs on tiny Matinicus Rock. Hunters who pursued the birds for their meat and feathers had nearly wiped them out by the early 1900s.

Maine’s puffin colonies are recovering in the face of climate change Scientists who monitor seabirds said Atlantic puffins had their second consecutive rebound year for fledging chicks after ...

The Maine puffin population once dwindled to only about 70 pairs on tiny Matinicus Rock. Hunters who pursued the birds for their meat and feathers had nearly wiped them out by the early 1900s.