PORTLAND, Ore. – It’s April, which means tufted puffins are making their grand return to the Oregon Coast.The beloved orange-billed birds come to Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach each Spring to ...

Puffins come to nest on Haystack Rock between April and September every year. This week, Cannon Beach is offering visitors a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – It’s April, which means tufted puffins are making their grand return to the Oregon Coast.The beloved orange-billed birds come to Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach each Spring to ...

Terry Richard/The OregonianA tufted puffin (photographed at the Oregon Coast Aquarium) ... Celebrate puffins at Cannon Beach, Haystack Rock. Published: Jul. 03, 2009, 12:16 a.m. By .

Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock is perhaps the Oregon Coast’s most iconic site. ... “Then in 2008, I conducted a survey, and we documented several hundred puffins along the entire Oregon Coast.

When I was a kid, my family would take summer road trips to the Oregon Coast, where a favorite stop was always Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach. The 250-foot-high, grassy behemoth of an outcropping ...

Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock is renowned not just for its natural beauty, but also because it's the only spot in the contiguous U.S. to see the iconic seabird the tufted puffin from shore.

It isn’t easy to spot the increasingly rare tufted puffin, but Haystack Rock is still a reliable site for a sighting of these ... which remain a popular tourist attraction at Cannon Beach, Oregon.

The Backstory: The story behind the puffins on Cannon Beach’s Haystack Rock . Originally published July 12, 2018 at 7:00 am. ... Why you should visit Oregon’s oldest resort ; ...

In the late 1980s, nesting tufted puffins numbered about 5,000 on the Oregon Coast, but in the '90s, biologists began to hear word that fewer and fewer were being seen, said Lowe. In 2008, U.S ...

Cannon Beach reopened to the public around 10 a.m. Monday after wildlife and law enforcement officials confirmed a cougar sighted on Haystack Rock was no longer present, Oregon Department of Fish ...