Atlantic Puffin

Diet: Carnivore
Romanised Name: Nishi Tsunome Dori
Distribution: Northern Atlantic Ocean
Conservation Status: Vulnerable
Scientific Name: Fratercula arctica
Also known as: Common Puffin
Average Lifespan in the Wild: 20 years
Japanese Name: ニシツノメドリ

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エトピリカ(雄)
アイヌ語で、エト=嘴、ピリカ=美しい ですって🧐
名前の響きも美しい🐦✨

その美しい嘴、繁殖期を終えると外れるとは驚き😱

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To this day, we still don't know where puffins fly when they migrate. Modern mystery.

Project Animalia (365 days of
Day 90: (Fratercula cirrhata) Tufted puffin

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okay these are super late but here are days 16-18 of we have a pink-necked green pigeon (Treron vernans), an atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica), and a superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus)!!

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Populations of this gorgeous seabird have fallen due to a decline in sand eel populations (climate change & overfishing), but seeing puffins nesting on remains one of my most treasured wildlife experiences.

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Frailecillo coletudo o moñudo (Fratercula cirrhata). Caradriforme de la familia Alcidae. Habita las costas del Pacífico ruso y norteamericano, así como de Japón.

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9 Puffins (Fratercula arctica) from the Shetland sketchbooks of Muriel Dawson (1897-1974). Puffins can be used as excellent bioindicators of the environment despite their nick name of "clowns of the sea"

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Tufted puffin in 2009, Atlantic puffin in 2017. Hopefully it doesn't take me another 8 years to see a horned puffin!

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