![]() In order to display that they don’t want to cause any trouble, a puffin passing a fellow puffin’s burrow will duck its beak down to its chest, moving rapidly past, indicating that it’s just passing through. In an actual fight, the two opponents will lock beaks and then beat at each other with their wings and feet. When aggravated, a puffin will puff itself up, spreading its wings and opening its beak and stamping its feet to make itself look more fearsome. In 2009 scientists estimated there were 4 million individual birds, with 1 million nests between them. The largest documented colony is made up of Atlantic Puffins, located in the Westmann Isles, part of Iceland. Puffins are very social birds, forming immense colonies together. They can dive as deep as 60 metres.Ī group of puffins is known by a range of names – a colony, a puffinry, a circus, a burrow, a gathering, or an improbability. While underwater, they steer themselves with outstretched wings, almost appearing to fly, while its feet act as a rudder. ![]() The puffin’s rough tongue can hold the fish against the spine of the bird’s palate, while it opens its beak to catch more fish.Ī puffin can dive for up to a minute, although they generally stay under for only about 30 seconds. Puffins are one of the few birds able to carry multiple small fish crosswise in their beaks, thanks to a unique hinge to their beaks, which allows the top half and the bottom half to meet at different angles, instead of slicing only straight up. They have white faces with colourful (red, yellow, and orange) beaks. ![]() Location: North Atlantic shorelines, moves as far south as Morocco and New York in the winterĪppearance: The Atlantic puffin has a black body with a white belly. ![]()
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