Atlantic Puffin

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Atlantic Puffin
Fratercula arctica
Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica Atlantic Puffin, Fratercula arctica
                                              nr. 901                                                    nr. 915
Distribution:
Breeds in Canada and Greenland, south to Maine, Iceland, Jan Mayen, Faeroes, Spitsbergen, Bear Islands and Novaya Zembla and north-west Russia (White Sea), coastal trough Norway, Sweden, British Isles and Ireland to the channel Islands, and North-west France.
Habitat:
Breeds in colony's, mostly in borrows on grassy maritime slopes and sea cliffs, also in boulder fields and scree slopes.
Size:
Length 32 cm.

Wingspan 55 cm.
Behaviour:
The birds assemble before the coast in early spring. After a few days they go to shore "en masse". Courtship is accompanied with bill clapping and fierce fighting.
Food:
Sand eels, whiting and sprat.
Reproduction:
One single egg is laid and is incubated by both parents for 6 weeks.

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