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 Puffinpalooza | Mar 2, 2013 | Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula cirrhata, Fratercula corniculata, Fratercula dowi, Hatchlings, Horned Puffins, Interesting Information about Puffins, Puffin Babies, puffin chicks, Puffin Diet, Puffin eggs, Puffin Habits, Puffin history, Puffin Lovers, Puffin Mates, Puffin Measurements, Puffin Nests, Puffin Predators, Puffin Research, Puffins, Puffling, Rhino Auk, Rhino Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet, Tufted Puffin, Types of Puffins
PUFFINS, AUKS and MURRES. Family ALCIDÆ NEST AND EGGS OF PIED-BILLED GREBE.Puffins, Auks and Murres are all sea birds and are only found inland when blown there by some severe storm of winter. At this season numbers of them are apt to lose their bearings and may...
by Puffling | May 18, 2012 | Atlantic Puffin, Interesting Information about Puffins, Puffin Conservation, Puffin Habits, Puffin Research, Puffins
Up until recently it was mostly a mystery where puffins went when they went out to sea. Their journey was simply not recorded. However, Stephen Kress of the National Audubon Society, the Director of the Audubon’s Seabird Restoration Program, came up with the clever...
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...
by Puffling | Feb 12, 2009 | Puffin Habits, Puffin Mates, Puffin Measurements, Puffin Stuff, Puffins, Puffling, Rhino Auk, Rhino Auklet, Rhinoceros Auklet
Rhinocerus Auklet, photo: Alan Burger Originally uploaded by BC Breeding Bird Atlas The Rhinoceros Auklet, Cerorhinca monocerata, is a seabird considered, despite its name, a close relative of the puffins. It is the only living species of the genus Cerorhinca. Given...
