Puffin season is back on the Oregon coast. The beautiful, beloved tufted puffins are expected back at Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, where the 2026 Welcome the Puffins Celebration will take place from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A pair of tufted puffins are likely nesting near Yaquina Head for the first time since the late ‘90s and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 4—CANNON BEACH — John Underwood became fascinated with tufted puffins during his visits to Cannon Beach as a child. He ...

CANNON BEACH — 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 ...

PROTECTION ISLAND — Once spread across the Salish Sea/Puget Sound, tufted puffins are now a rare sight in this area as their range contracts. Endangered in Washington state since 2015, there was only ...

Just 553. That is the estimated number of individual Tufted Puffins remaining in Oregon, based on the 2021 coastwide survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). It’s a staggering ...

Monterey Bay Aquarium has a new reason to puff out its chest — its first-ever hatching of a tufted puffin chick. The chick — a female — hatched July 19 as part of the aquarium’s first attempt to breed ...