It’s puffling season on Heimaey, a volcanic island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago along the southern coast of Iceland.

Catherine Merrigan captures the global importance and uniqueness of Skellig Michael, and illustrates how lonely living in ...

A few weeks in August and September are very special in Vestmannaeyjar, as everyone is involved in the annual Puffling Patrol ...

A new count by the National Trust shows higher numbers of puffins than 2019 but other seabird populations have fallen ...

The first survey of the birds in five years has found that puffin numbers are up 15 per cent to an estimated 50,000 pairs ...

The first survey of the birds in five years has found that puffin numbers are up 15 per cent to an estimated 50,000 pairs ...

National Trust rangers carried out the first full count of the seabird species since 2019 after the pandemic and bird flu ...

Rangers monitor the populations by observing the burrows, looking for signs such as puffin footprints, fresh digging and hatched eggshells as well as birds arriving with fresh fish in their beaks.

Puffin numbers on the Farne Islands have seen a 15 per cent increase with the population declared as ‘stable’.

A puffin population has been declared "stable ... Ms Jackson said: "Puffins nest in separate burrows and clean them out. "In that way, the disease is less likely to spread as fast as it does ...