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...
by Puffling | Jul 15, 2012 | Predators of Puffins
One of the natural predators of the puffin are gulls (I wrote about puffin predators here). This poor little puffin was trying to bring its puffling some sand eels when this gull flew in and took it…mean gull! You can read the whole story The puffin that got...
by Puffling | May 3, 2009 | Predators of Puffins, Puffin Habits, Puffin Predators, Puffins
Photo by DailyMail When you’ve swooped 300 feet into the cold and murky depths of the Atlantic for your dinner, you don’t give it up without a fight. Even when you’re a tiny puffin and the thieves outnumbering you are three fiercesome black-headed...
by Magpie | Apr 5, 2009 | Atlantic Puffin, Horned Puffins, Predators of Puffins, Puffin Habits, Puffin Predators, Puffins, Tufted Puffin
Predators are a natural part of life. And while uber adorable puffins also have predators. Each puffin has its own set of predators. What are the puffin predators? What preys on Puffins? Predators of the Atlantic puffin include people; gulls and skuas including the...