 Puffin The sea diving bird belonging to the AUK family . It's bill is large and triangular, and brilliantly colored in blue, vermilion, and yellow , and is adapted for carrying a number of fish at one time. Its alternate name is sea parrot.
The puffins body is dumpy, with short legs set far back, small wings, but they are expert swimmers, on land and in flight they are clumsy. Their nests are in rock cavities in the large colonies on the northern islands , where they migrate regularly, the Atlantic puffin migrates as far south as Long Island and the Pacific puffins to California. |
