That perfect picture of a puffin on United Kingdom’s Skomer Island is coming at a price. Wardens on Skomer Island are warning photographers to walk carefully on the island after several people have ...

While Skomer Island in Wales often gets the headlines for its puffin colony, I’ve discovered an Irish outpost that is home to a large colony and is easier to visit. A friend of mine has long disputed ...

A Zoology professor has been dubbed the 'birdman of Skomer' after travelling to the remote island annually for the last 40 years to study its rare guillemots. Professor of behavioural ecology at the ...

It’s 7.45am in west Pembrokeshire and an impromptu convoy is snaking down a back road to nowhere. Delivery drivers scowl in passing places as cars stream past. We’re en route – that’s me and eight ...

A record number of puffins have been recorded on a small island off the Pembrokeshire coast, despite global populations declining rapidly. According to the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales ...

West Wales island home to tens of thousands of puffins and shearwaters is a star of the veteran broadcaster’s new BBC series Wild Isles The sky was bright blue, the sea deep green and flocks of ...

Thousands of puffins usually found on islands off Pembrokeshire are believed to have died following last winter's storms. Researchers think the sea birds could not get enough fish to eat after ...

PEMBROKESHIRE, WALES—The first excavation on Skomer Island, known for its puffins and other seabirds, has examined a cooking mound containing fire-cracked stones. “This mound built up from numerous ...

Tim Birkhead scrambles over slippery, lichen-covered rocks seemingly unperturbed that the slightest stumble will send him somersaulting into the churning sea far below. He hunkers down in a battered ...

It may be one of the best-known parts of the Welsh coastline but conservationists and ecologists say waters around Skomer Island in Pembrokeshire are urgently in need of even greater protection. Those ...

A warden has been found to look after Skomer Island, off the Pembrokeshire coast, which is home to the largest puffin population in southern Britain. Chris Taylor is stepping into the role held by the ...

Puffin breeding season on Pembrokeshire's Skomer Island is drawing to a close and the birds will soon return to sea once more. More than 38,000 Atlantic puffins began to arrive on the 720-acre island ...