The Oregon Coast Aquarium is just over the halfway point to reaching its goal of producing its new puffin license plates. More than 1,600 vouchers have been sold so far, according to the aquarium ...

The plate was designed by an in-house artist at the Newport facility; it features a tufted puffin diving into the water. "It's a seabird summer at the Oregon Coast Aquarium," says Klug.

Atlantic puffin chicks, adorably called pufflings, venture out of their burrows after three months. Most pufflings find their way to the ocean, but some mysteriously wind up stranded on land, where ...

Nesting around the edges of the North Atlantic, this puffin is sought after by birdwatchers who visit Maine or eastern Canada in summer. At its colonies, the bird may fly back to its nest carrying a ...