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Food
Habitat/NestsReproduction
Habits in Life
Communication Signals
Groups/Relatives
Population/Names
Body
FoodEnemies
North U.S.
East Canada
IcelandNorway
France
Arctic
Atlantic puffins’ nests are at the end of their burrows, which are 3 feet long. It is made out of feathers and grass.
Puffins dig their burrows in breeding season with its feet and bill. An older puffin may come back to the same burrow each year.
How does that compare with penguins? They live at opposite polar ends of the world.
Puffin young are called pufflings.
Puffin eggs are white and light purple with brown spots at the big end.
Unlike many other animals, the puffin nests are usually burrows dug into the earth.
Great Black-Backed Gull Humans Foxes
Eagles Falcons
All of these organisms are threats of the puffin. But they aren’t the only ones. River otters, foxes, and rats steal and eat puffins’ eggs.
Family: AlcidaeGenus: FraterculaPhylum: ChordataClass: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Tufted Puffin
Horned Puffin
Rhinoceros Auklet
Puffins are often confused with penguins. They have similar colors, and both swim under water using their wings as fins, but they are not related .
Greeting: face each other and tap bills.
Threaten:
1.low growl
2.2. yawning
3.3.puffing up and gaping.
Mating- run around each other, crouch, and nuzzle bills
Avoiding Trouble: walk fast with head down.
Guarding Burrow: walk back and forth in front of tunnel like soldier.
Puffins have a chunky body and short wings, so it’s hard for them to take off.
FlyingSwimming
Puffins are excellent swimmers and divers.
Mating season is April to August
How might puffins protect
themselves?
Webbed Feet
White Chest
Colorful Bill
Black Back
White Cheeks
Inner Toenail
Sharp Claws
Extra Eyelids
Length: 12 in.
Weight:17.5 oz
Wingspan:20- 24 in.
The puffin is the provincial bird of Newfoundland When settlers first
came to North America, they hunted puffins.
Fratercula Arctica Fatling
LundiCommon
Puffin
Clowns of the SeaSea
Parrot