by Puffinpalooza | Oct 6, 2016 | Atlantic Puffin, Differences Between Puffins, Horned Puffins, Interesting Information about Puffins, Puffin Beaks, Puffin Pictures, Puffin Research, Puffin Rosette, Tufted Puffin
The three kinds of puffins have different puffin bills. Let’s examine all three to see how they are different. Do you notice any other differences? Please let us know! Note: The colorful fleshy part at the base of the puffin’s bill is called a rosette. You can...
by Puffinpalooza | Oct 5, 2016 | Atlantic Puffin, Interesting Information about Puffins, Puffin Photos, Puffin Pictures, Puffin Predators, Puffin Research
No one gets along all the time. Puffins are no different from the rest of us. When puffins fight they will often puff themselves up, spread their wings and open their beaks while stamping their feet so they can look scarier. When they are in an actual fight puffins...
by Puffinpalooza | Oct 4, 2016 | Atlantic Puffin, Interesting Information about Puffins, Puffin Pictures, Puffin Stuff
A group of puffins can be referred to as: a burrow of puffins a circus of puffins (as they are the clowns of the sea!) a colony of puffins an improbability of puffins a loomery of puffins a puffinry of puffins Do you have a...
by Puffinpalooza | Oct 3, 2016 | Atlantic Puffin, Interesting Information about Puffins, Predators of Puffins, Puffin Conservation
Dastardly plastic–the evils of the plastic industry are reaching our little puffin populations. A tiny little plastic pebble called a nurdle is finding its way by the millions into the sea. These nurdles are used for packing and shipping — to keep *things*...
by Puffinpalooza | Oct 2, 2016 | Atlantic Puffin, Predators of Puffins, puffin chicks, Puffin Diet, Puffin Habits, Puffin Research, Puffins, Puffling
Despite all the successful efforts by renowned ornithologist Steven Kress (and the Audubon’s Project Puffin) to get (and keep) a thriving population of Atlantic puffins on the eastern coast of the United States (Eastern Egg Rock off the coast of Maine), the...