Puffins
Auks
Puffins are any of three auk species (or alcids) in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak in the breeding season. These are pelagic (open sea) seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water.
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Puffin: Fratercula arctica
Distribution: North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean; breeding colonies in Britain are mainly on north and west coasts.
Puffin (Fratercula arctica)
The Puffin breeds on the coasts of north-western Europe, Iceland, Greenland and eastern North America.
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common name for a diving bird of the family Alcidae (auk family).
Puffins live near the sea in very cold parts of the world.
There are three species (kinds) of puffins. Puffins live near the sea on rocky coasts in the cold northern parts the world.
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Bird. Cousins of the penguin, Atlantic puffins are true seabirds and spend most of their time swimming, diving, and feeding at sea.
Puffin The sea diving bird belonging to the AUK family . It's bill is large and triangular, and brilliantly colored in blue, vermilion, and yellow , and is adapted for carrying a number of fish at one time. Its alternate name is sea parrot.
Puffins are sea birds that can fly, swim, and dig burrows. These squat birds live on cold, Arctic coasts.
Puffins lay a single egg at the end of the burrow. If the first egg is lost soon after laying, a replacement may be produced. Both parents incubate with change over occuring at night.
Puffin, Atlantic Fratercula arctica Found: North Atlantic regions of North America and Great Britain
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Birds Britannia
A sand eel shortage around our shores has led to a decline in Britain's popular puffins.
Tufted Puffin
Fratercula cirrhata
The Tufted Puffin is the largest in size of all the puffins.
Horned Puffin Photo
This photo of a pair of nesting Horned Puffins was taken on June 25th, 2006 off the coast of Seward, Alaska. It was taken on a wildlife cruise out of Alaska.
Tufted Puffin
Tufted Puffin (Fratercula cirrhata)
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Horned puffin Fratercula corniculata
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Length: 11.5 inches
Sexes similar
Immature similar to adult basic but bill is smaller and darker
Medium to large alcid that dives for food from water surface
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Tufted Puffin
Relatives in same Genus
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The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) breeds along the coast of Alaska and winters southward on the Pacific coast to Washington and Oregon.
Puffins' natural predators include various types of gulls, including the black-backed gull. They also tend to be hunted by humans for their meat in Iceland and Norway.
Puffins are still abundant in many parts of the world but their numbers have begun to decrease due to hunting and pollution. Oil pollution is one of the greatest risks for these sea birds. Also, humans hunt puffins for their feathers and meat.
Puffins are small seabirds that belong in the scientific family Alcidae. There are three species of living puffins: common, horned and tufted. These birds, along with auks, guillemonts, and murres of alcids exist today.
Puffins walk erect, live in colonies and are very curious and tame. They utter low, purring noises in flight, low grunts and groans while nesting. They ride high on the water like ducks and must run across the surface of the water to become airborne.
Puffins are expert divers. They use their wings to propel themselves underwater. They can dive up to hundreds of feet to catch fish. Preferred fish are capelin and sand lance.
Puffin viewing has also started to become popular in Elliston Newfoundland, previously named Bird Island Cove, located near Trinity. Here, puffins have been known to be tame enough to get even 2 or 3 feet away from them.
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Puffins are preyed upon by great black-backed gulls and great skuas, herring gulls (which are known to take eggs, chicks and steal fish), rats, cats, dogs, and foxes.
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PUFFIN, Mormon arcticus, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 105.
Male, 11 3/4, 23.
The puffin has a large triangular bill, which is very efficient at catching and holding small fish. It also has a special gland that produces oil, with which it waterproofs its feathers.
Horned puffins exhibit a types of deceptive coloration called counter shading. Animals with countershading have different colors on their backs and stomachs.
Horned Puffins weigh about 1.4 pounds (620 grams), and measure about 15 inches in length, with a wingspan of 23 inches.
Horned Puffin: Medium-sized puffin with black upperparts and white underparts. Face is white with a black, fleshy horn above eye extending to top of head. Bill is triangular and massive during summer, when it is bright yellow with orange tip.
Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata - Breeding plumaged adult in flight
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Atlantic puffins land on North Atlantic seacoasts and islands to form breeding colonies each spring and summer. Iceland is the breeding home of perhaps 60 percent of the world's Atlantic puffins.
Atlantic Puffins live in colonies. In Canada, the largest are found on islands off Newfoundland, where estimates of single-colony populations have reached 250 000. Winters are spent offshore.
Like all puffins, tufteds are better at swimming than flying. They dart after fast-moving fish and snatch them up in their large beaks.
Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arctica
Status Uncommon transient, rare in winter and summer. Breeds.
(1999) Species Action Plan for the Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus in Europe. BirdLife International.
Brooke, M. (2004) Albatrosses and Petrels Across the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Arcos, J.M. and Oro, D.
Puffin burrows - Received on from James in the U.K.
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Puffinus griseus
The stormy weather of late has cast another large wreck of birds on the beach here. This time it is mainly the sooty shearwater.
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Puffins are Arctic sea birds.
Quail (labeled)
The Valley Quail (also known as the California Quail) is a plump bird with a forward-facing head plume.
Horned Puffin
This colorful little seabird can be found in the cold waters of the northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. Puffins are closely connected to the sea. They spend 6-8 months each year on the open ocean.
Family Alcidae (puffins, murres, auklets, and relatives)
Family Burhinidae (thick-knees)
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Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) can be found on both sides of the Atlantic ocean. This species is more common in Europe but also frequents Newfoundland and New England.
Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus. Occasional in Gulf Coast region. Mostly pelagic. Found in the Gulf.
Audubon’s Shearwater Puffinus lherminieri. Occasional in Gulf Coast region. Pelagic. Found in the Gulf.
" 2 Ray's mistaking young birds of this kind obtained in the Isle of Man for the young of the coulterneb, now usually called "Puffin," has already been mentioned under that heading; ...
- Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus
- Blue chaffinch Fringilla teydea
- Bonelli’s eagle Aquila fasciata
- Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus
- Dalmatian pelican Pelecanus crispus
- Dark-tailed laurel pigeon Columba bollii ...
Rhinos do make noises that vary from puffing sounds, snorts, a deep but quiet roar (not like a lion), squeals and shrieks. White rhino males will particularly emit high pitched squeal when trying to keep an estrus cow from leaving his territory.
This family includes the auks and puffins. These aquatic birds have dense plumage with black, gray or brown above and usually white below. They have set-back legs and short wings. Some species have large laterally-compressed bills and/or head plumes.
Traits: Known as the clown of Amazona, the orange-winged Amazon loves to play and has a penchant for puffing up its cheek feathers and raising its head feathers.
: The males begin courtship by puffing up crest and cheek feathers and hiding the beak.
This commensal relationship between the salmon and the birds is noted to be especially strong in such species as the White-fronted Tern, Sterna striata, Fluttering Shearwater, Puffinus gavia, and Buller's Shearwater, Puffinus bulleri.
Scientific name: Puffinus carneipes
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Description
A large blackish-brown shearwater with flesh-coloured feet. The large bill is straw coloured with a dark tip and the eyes are brown.
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Courting male hops about dangling wings and puffing out chest. With wings vibrating rapidly and tail cocked, male softly vocalizes and may rise 6-12" off the ground, occ while holding nest material in beak and singing.
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Tunnels which have already been excavated are best treated by puffing an insecticidal dust (e.g., 5 percent carbaryl) into the nest opening. Aerosol sprays labeled for wasp or bee control also are effective.
The second one was putting on quite a show, puffing itself up and doing push-ups. At first we wondered whether it was trying to impress us, its human observers, but then it suddenly raced down the rock to drive off a fellow prairie lizard.
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Also known as:
Common Porpoise, Puffing Pig
Sexual Dimorphism:
Females are 10%-20% larger than males.
Play Birds: Males are polygamous, so they form territories that may have as many as 5 hens within. Male wild turkeys display for females by puffing out their feathers, spreading out their tails and dragging their wings.
 See also: Shearwater, Burro, Petrel, Guillemot, Fly
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