After taking a detour through a backyard in New England, a lost puffin has been returned to the sea.

There are four species of puffins: Atlantic, horned, tufted and (despite the misleading name) rhinoceros auklets. They live along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Psst—these ...

Rhode Island is well outside the normal habitat for Atlantic puffins. so rehabilitators are wondering: Where did this one come from?