Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic Puffins were once almost extinct from Maine’s coast, their only native habitat in the United States. But after the ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The cute and comical seabirds called puffins have returned to several Maine islands and are finding plenty of food for their young chicks unlike last summer when many starved.

The puffins are early risers, but so is Tim Halloran. For the past 12 years, he has spent most summer mornings — and many sunsets — with his binoculars aimed at a tufted puffin colony on Cannon ...