Collective Nouns for Puffins

by Puffinpalooza | Oct 4, 2016 | Atlantic Puffin, Interesting Information about Puffins, Puffin Pictures, Puffin Stuff | 3 comments

Collective Nouns for Puffins

Atlantic Puffins. Photo by Geoffrey Whiteway

Atlantic Puffins. Photo by Geoffrey Whiteway

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 preference?

3 Comments

Doug Grinnell on November 25, 2017 at 9:46 am

How about a poof of puffins ?
Class2 on March 23, 2018 at 3:27 am

Is it to do with the colourful beaks?
Puffinpalooza on December 16, 2018 at 10:02 pm

I believe so.

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