Tufted puffin

And I think that's really good advice too, you know, about going and leading walks in your own local area.

And so then you get kind of a feel for, for what it's like, because, you know, we, we probably told you, we lead Tufted Puffin walks here and we get asked the same question every single day, um, about the puffins, but we, we just so enjoy sharing our knowledge with folks about it.

But, you know, if you're somebody that doesn't want to answer the same question every single day, maybe you'll kind of, you know, before you're still select out.

Yeah.

But when disturbed by man, the blackbirds have quite a different sound of alarm, and the chickens also.

The Tufted Puffin

these birds nest in colonies the family consisting of about thirty species nearly all found in the northern parts of the northern hemisphere audubon is said to have procured the specimen figured by him at the mouth of the kennebec river maine the only record of its occurrence on the atlantic coast the tufted puffin breeds upon the rocks and in the rabbit warrens near the sea finding the ready-made burrows of the rabbit very convenient for the reception of its egg and fighting with the owner for the possession of its burrow where rabbits do not exist the puffin digs its own burrows and works hard at its labor the egg is generally placed several feet within the holes and the parent defends it vigorously Like most of the sea birds, both sexes assist in incubation, says a recent writer, referring to the birds found at the famous rookery in the open sea 200 miles west of Fort Wrangell, an island often visited by the Indians for birds and eggs, and are close sitters, a great amount of probing with a long stick being necessary to dislodge them.

A grassy hillside is a favorite retreat, and here it is dangerous to travel about on account of the puffins constantly coming blindly out of their dark holes with a force sufficient to upset one if fairly struck by the flying birds.

When specimens are wanted, they are easily captured with snares set over their holes during the night.

Bottlenosed dolphin, Tursiops tursio.

Range, Arctic Ocean and the north of the Atlantic.

Tufted puffin, Lunda cirrata.