Four birds from the UK are at risk of global extinction, according to a conservation database. Atlantic puffins, European turtle doves, Slavonian grebes and pochards have all been placed on the ...

Trophy hunters are paying thousands of pounds to travel to Iceland and shoot up to 100 puffins at a time, even though the birds were classified as endangered last year (Pictures: Campaign to Ban ...

Puffins living in one of the most remote places in the UK are to be fitted with 'sat nav' devices in a bid to help scientists discover why their numbers are falling. This summer researchers will use ...

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A puffling sits in the palm of my hand, preparing to jump into the sea. I feel like a parent on the first day of school. We are on the return leg of a Scottish Seabird Centre boat trip to the Isle of ...

More than a hundred dead puffins have washed up on shores around the northeast coast of Scotland, and the Orkney and Shetland islands over the last three weeks, in an incident experts believe is the ...

A sad day for bird lovers, conservationists, and nature in general: the Atlantic puffin and three other birds in the United Kingdom have been declared vulnerable and are steps closer to extinction.

More than a quarter of the UK's birds are struggling to survive, with species including curlews and puffins joining the at-risk list in recent years, a report highlights. Europe's largest and most ...

The much-loved puffin is at risk of extinction, environmentalists have warned. Surveys have revealed that the number of Atlantics puffins has declined at several sites across the UK. On Shetland, it’s ...