Meet the animals from the beautiful new series, Puffin Rock! Oona and her baby brother Baba live on Puffin Rock with their ...
The birds spend most of their lives in the open ocean. Observing birds at sea is nearly impossible, so much about puffins remains a mystery. Ecologists like Erpur Snær Hansen, who leads a team at the ...
Smallest of the four puffin species, they have come en masse ... puffins use that gaudy beak and their webbed feet to dig a burrow in the soft earth. (In some locations the birds nest among ...
Puffin parents can supply their young with fish ... When puffins return from a winter at sea they find their way to the exact burrow where they’ve raised their chicks year after year, and ...
Interestingly, while the adults themselves feed mainly on large zooplankton, they feed small forage fish such as sandlance to the chick. The chick fledges after 40 days or more in the burrow. Triangle ...
The puffin population on the Farne Islands off ... and typically return to the same burrow each year to breed, the National ...