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 ...

The large number of deaths of tufted puffins on St. Paul Island, in the Bering Sea off the Alaska coast, have raised more concerns about the effects of climate change. Credit: Isaac Sanchez/CC-BY-2.0 ...

Seabirds are an important indicator of marine ecosystem health—and in 2016, signs began to emerge that something was very, very wrong in the eastern Bering Sea. Around 350 dead seabirds, most of them ...

Between October 2016 and January 2017, the carcasses of hundreds of severely emaciated seabirds, mostly tufted puffins, washed onto the beaches of St. Paul Island, off Alaska. Not all birds that die ...

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The bodies of dead, emaciated puffins started washing up on St Paul Island in October 2016, with US scientists saying up to 9,000 puffins and other sea birds died between then and January 2017.

HOMER, Alaska. —- Tufted and horned puffins nesting on GullIsland are often visible in the morning, floating in the tranquilfishing waters near the commerce and hub of the Homer Spit. A study looking ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - An Anchorage-based scientist says paralytic shellfish poisoning is to blame for the deaths of more than 300 puffins that washed up in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea last ...