Right now, groups of Icelanders are taking to the streets late at night, armed with cardboard boxes and torches, in search of ...

As the summer season begins to fade in Iceland, residents of the Vestmannaeyjar islands step in to guide the baby puffins to fly on their first journey toward the ocean. As the night begins, baby ...

Eva Berglind Guðmundsdóttir, 8; Jón Bjarki Eiríksson, 12; Íris Dröfn Guðmundsdóttir, 11; and Anton Ingi Eiríksson, 14 throw four baby puffins off a cliff in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland ... you're just ...

There are few birds in the northern hemisphere quite as striking and easily identifiable as a puffin. With its red-orange, yellow, and black beak, bold black and white feathers and perpetual puppy dog ...

Throwing baby puffins off a cliff may sound crazy - but this strange act from people in Iceland is actually designed to help them fly. As the summer comes to an end, baby puffins are supposed to leave ...

As his ancestors have done for generations, Icelander Árni Hilmarsson catches an Atlantic puffin in a net called a háfur. Photo by Carsten Egevang/atlanticseabirds.info This article is from Hakai ...

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