Atlantic Puffin Photo Collection

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Puffin is one of the small alcids species in the genus of Fratercula birds that have a brighter colored part of the beak in the mating season.

Puffins include the type of pelagic sea birds that fish by diving. Because of his black-and-white darts, sweat Puffin is often mistaken for penguins. Though Puffin not including Penguin.

Puffin breeds on a large colony found on coastal cliffs or offshore islands. They are often lodged in rock crevices or in burrows in the ground.

Two Puffin species namely Tufted Puffin and Horned Puffin, live in the North Pacific Ocean region, then for Atlantic Puffin live in the North Atlantic region.

This type of bird lives in a group called a colony. These birds in the sea will rest on the waves as they swim. These animals include excellent swimmers who use their wings underwater with flying gestures.

They direct the swim using their webbed feet and also shaped like umbrellas and can dive to a depth of 200 feet (61 meters).

Although they usually stay under water for only 20 or 30 seconds. Puffins generally hunt small fish such as eel or sand fish.

At times in the air, puffins include a surprising flyer. By flapping their wings up to 400 times per minute they can reach speeds of 55 miles (88 kilometers) in 1 hour.

Atlantic Puffins landed in the north offshore Atlantic and surrounding islands to form colonies at the time of every spring and summer.

Iceland is a breeding house of about 60 percent of Atlantic birds puffins around the world. Birds often choose steep cliffs, rocky cliffs to build their nests made of feathers or grass.

The female takes out a single egg and the two mothers alternate to hatch it. When hatching, the two mothers take turns feeding it with small fish obtained from a large hunting area.