What is Atlantic Puffin?

Atlatical puffin, also known as an ordinary buffin, is a marine bird of species articles and a member of the AUK family. It is one of the only four types of puffins around the world and the only kind of puffin found in the Atlantic Ocean area. Atlantic Puffin usually remains at sea for most of the year and comes only inland. His breeding soils usually occur in Eastern North America, Iceland and Northern Europe. These birds are often nicknamed "sea parrots" or "clowns of the ocean" because their visually noticeable black and white feathers and brightly colored beaks. Birds have on their backs and wings and white feathers covering their faces, breasts, stomachs and legs. Atlantic Puffin also has dark signs of his eyes, which somewhat resemble dramatically applied black eyeliner. Birds have large, wedge -like accounts that are live orange, yellow and dark blue; These colors intensify during the mating season because male birds use their brightly colored accounts to attract friends.Their legs are also orange, with the legs webbed.

These sea birds spend most of the time in open water and immerse themselves for their food. They are strong and charming swimmers, usually using wings as paddles when swimming underwater. On the other hand, they are clumsy and embarrassing and walking. The Atlantic puffin diet consists mainly of small fish, but also includes molluscs and molluscs. Birds often dive several times before they finally swallow their prey and can hold as much as a dozen small fish in their beaks, using their tongues to keep their prey in their mouths while hunting.

The Puffin Atlantic Crown period usually occurs between May and August. This is the only season when birds start inland to create small nesting colonies on sandy cliffs and rocky exits. Male puffins dig up the burrows with legs and beaks; This nesting lair is thenlined with grass and weed. Females usually put only one egg in the burrow and alternate with men who incubate eggs with wing cover. The egg usually takes about 40 days to hatch, and the chickens take another 40 days to reach maturity.

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