The post Why Do Puffins Lose Their Colorful Beaks Every Winter? appeared first on A-Z Animals. Puffins are dapper little birds that spend a lot of time at sea. You can't miss a puffin, thanks to their ...

Nature is endowed with beautiful creatures, and some of these look straight out of a fantasy tale. Birds are also among these ...

The high-tech birds can see 99 million more colors than we can. Birds are awesome. They fly (well, most of them do), they form massive swarms, and they’re basically living dinosaurs. But puffins, ...

Anyone that has ever laid eyes on an Atlantic puffin will tell you about its incredibly colorful beak, but it now seems that there’s more going on here than meets the eye (or human eye, we should say) ...

This is the last in my series of columns linking the Arctic areas I have been visiting this summer with our New England backyards. One trip my birdwatching mom and I planned but never took was a ...

Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food. In a new study published ...

An incredible photo of a puffin reveals that the birds' beaks actually have a fluorescent quality to them. Evidently, a part of their beaks glow bright blue when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light.

A greedy puffin was caught on camera stuffing its beak with fish. Wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek-Peters snapped the colourful seabird on Skomer Island, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Birds are awesome. They fly (well, most of them do), they form massive swarms, and they’re basically living dinosaurs. But puffins, which are already cool because they’re birds, just got a whole lot ...

Puffins are dapper little birds that spend a lot of time at sea. You can’t miss a puffin, thanks to their distinctive black and grey plumage and vibrantly colored beak. But once a year, part of that ...

Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food. Tufted puffins regulate ...