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The English name "puffin" – puffed in the sense of swollen – was originally applied to the fatty, salted meat of young birds of the unrelated Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), formerly known as the "Manks puffin". [2] Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn or poffin) for the cured carcasses of nestling Manx shearwaters. [3]
The Atlantic puffin is the official bird symbol of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [68] In August 2007, the Atlantic puffin was unsuccessfully proposed as the official symbol of the Liberal Party of Canada by its deputy leader Michael Ignatieff, after he observed a colony of these birds and became fascinated by their ...
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Abbott's babbler; Abbott's booby; Abbott's starling; Abd al-Kuri sparrow; Abdim's stork; Aberdare cisticola; Aberrant bush warbler; Abert's towhee; Abyssinian catbird
The tufted puffin is a familiar bird on the coasts of the Russian Pacific coast, where it is known as toporok (Топорок) – meaning "small axe," a hint to the shape of the bill. Toporok is the namesake of one of its main breeding sites, Kamen Toporkov ("Tufted Puffin Rock") or Ostrov Toporkov ("Tufted Puffin Island"), an islet offshore ...
The rhinoceros auklet (also known as the rhino auklet, horn-billed puffin, or unicorn puffin), is a medium-sized auk with a large, strong, orange/brown bill (with the 'horn' protruding from it). The plumage is dark on top and paler below; breeding adults (both male and female) possess white plumes above the eyes and behind the bill.
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Puffin's is a private members' luncheon club, established in the 1960s by the historian Sir Iain Moncreiffe of That Ilk. Named after his first wife, Diana Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll (whose nickname was ' Puffin '), it started as an informal social gathering of Scots clan chiefs and aristocrats at Edinburgh .