That’s when fledging Atlantic puffins from North America’s largest colony of the species, Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, leave their burrows for the first time. Under the cover of darkness ...

The British Isles, scene of Danny Green’s photographs, attract about 10 percent of an estimated 20 million Atlantic ... puffins use that gaudy beak and their webbed feet to dig a burrow in ...

Atlantic puffins’ beaks are more reminiscent of birds ... When puffins return from a winter at sea they find their way to the exact burrow where they’ve raised their chicks year after year ...

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 ...

Atlantic puffins in Witless Bay Ecological Reserve ... A hungry chick may shuffle back and forth to the burrow entrance, like Oliver Twist ‘asking for more’. But the pampered youngster ...