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 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 | Jul 30, 2012 | Puffin Conservation, Puffin Research, Puffins, Tufted Puffin
Where or where have our little tufted puffins gone? Where or where could they be? According to the observations of volunteers for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife, tufted puffins are in a rapid decline over the past 25 or so years. From 612 puffins observed in...
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...
