With its brightly striped bill and pristine black and white plumage, the Common or Atlantic Puffin is one of the most popular and most easily identified seabirds of the northern hemisphere. This comical little bird is found in colonies on the rocky sea cliffs and offshore islands of the northern United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the USSR, Norway, Northern Europe, and Scotland. This book provides a detailed study of the natural history of the puffin and gives valuable insight into its feeding, breeding, and travelling habits, courtship and social behaviour. There is information on breeding colonies and on the dangers puffins face from predators, including human activity and that twentieth-century killer oil pollution

This book is illustrated with over 70 colour photographs, specially taken by the authors, which show previously unseen and fascination shots, both underwater and undergrounds.