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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 (Fratercula arctica), also known as the common puffin, is a species of seabird in the auk family. It is the only puffin native to the Atlantic Ocean ; two related species, the tufted puffin and the horned puffin being found in the northeastern Pacific .
Leesburg is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) [5] located within Maurice River Township in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The area is served as United States Postal Service ZIP Code 08327.
The Puffin Puzzle Book: W. E. Gladstone: William Grimmond: 1944: The first Puffin Story Book to have an illustrated cover unique to itself. PS 10: Tents in Mongolia: Henning Haslund-Christensen---1943: Adventures and experiences among the nomads of Central Asia. A youth edition prepared by Eleanor Graham: PS 11: Carcajou: Rutherford Montgomery ...
The Lundehund was a valuable working animal for hunting puffin birds along the Norwegian coast as food for over 400 years. [2] The first known written record of the breed dates to 1591, when a bailiff wrote of his visit to Værøy that, “one cannot easily retrieve [puffins] from the depth without having a small dog accustomed to crawling into the hole and pulling the birds out.” [1] Its ...
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The tufted puffin (Fratercula cirrhata), also known as crested puffin, is a relatively abundant medium-sized pelagic seabird in the auk family (Alcidae) found throughout the North Pacific Ocean. It is one of three species of puffin that make up the genus Fratercula and is easily recognizable by its thick red bill and yellow tufts.
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