We think one of the funnier aspects of puffins is the noises they make. Puffins Five Fun Facts About Atlantic Puffins Our friend the Atlantic puffin has two relatives, the large tufted puffin and the horned puffin (a real "parrot of the sea.").
Puffin Stamps from Lundyġ929 Lundy Puffin stamps - ½ penny puffin red and 1 penny puffin blue. Puffins also thrive in Eastern Canada, indeed this "clown of the sea" is the official bird of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Their habitat extends accross to the other side of the Atlantic, you can see them down the USA seaboard through Maine as far as North Carolina. The collective name for this bird is a colony of puffins.Īs the name suggests, these puffins live around the North Atlantic Ocean: I have seen them in Iceland, Scandanavia and around the coasts of Great Brittain.The Latin name for this species is: Fratercula arctica,.Without this coating, they would never survive the harsh Puffins are insulated from the cold by an oily coating on their feathers.North Atlantic Puffins beat their wings up to 300 times per minute to stay aloft.Will and Guy have been told that the largest recorded number of fish in a puffin's beak at one time was 62. A puffin can sometimes have a dozen or more fish in its beak at once by holding them in an alternating end to end pattern.Atlantic puffins often live for 20 years, and the oldest known puffin was 29 years old.Once a puffin hatches, it takes about 48 days to master the art of flying and to become independent from it's parents.
The birds nest in burrows in the ground or in a sheltered area among rocks. Wisely, they nest on rocky cliffs, where the laying birds and their eggs are safer from predators. As the fly around the oceans so puffins have a choice of nesting sites.Puffins can dive to depths of over 150 feet. The purpose of these underwater forays is to find small fish.They are amphibious being able to fly through the air other birds, but they can use those stubby wings as paddles and steer using their webbed feet rather like a boat's rudder. Atlantic puffins spend much of their lives at sea.
Top Ten Fun Facts and Trivia About Atlantic Puffins
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