Puffins nest on rocky, isolated islands that have the rocks and boulders that can create a suitable puffin nest. In Maine, puffins have been recorded nesting on seven islands, with the largest ...

After pairing up, often with the same partner as in previous years, puffins use that gaudy beak and their webbed feet to dig a burrow in the soft earth. (In some locations the birds nest among ...

Atlantic puffins’ beaks are more reminiscent of birds ... soil into the air behind them as they dig. Inside, there’s a nest of feathers and grass where they incubate the egg.

“Puffin nest in colonies, at some locations such as the Great Saltee Island, the nests are mostly in old burrows. “NPWS has addressed a previous problem of predation through a rat eradication ...