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The name of the English island Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for "puffin island" (Lundey), [32] although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area. [33] The Atlantic puffin is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
A small, freely-moving projection on the anterior edge of the wing of modern birds (and a few non-avian dinosaurs)—a bird's "thumb"—the word is Latin and means 'winglet'; it is the diminutive of ala, meaning 'wing'. Alula typically bear three to five small flight feathers, with the exact number depending on the species.
The vernacular name "puffin" – puffed in the sense of swollen – was originally applied to the fatty, salted meat of young birds of the unrelated species Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), which in 1652 was known as the "Manks puffin". [9] It is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn or poffin) used for the cured carcasses. [10]
There is one animal present in our greater backyard that I urge everyone to try to see at least once in the wild − the Atlantic puffin. Now's the time to find Atlantic puffins in nearby Maine ...
The new hybrid likely came from breeding between two subspecies within the past 100 years, which scientists said coincides with the warming pattern.
Puffinus is a Neo-Latin loanword based on the English "puffin". The original Latin term for shearwaters was usually the catchall name for sea-birds, mergus. [8] "Puffin" and its variants, such as poffin, pophyn and puffing, [9] referred to the cured carcass of the fat nestling of the shearwater, a former delicacy. [10]
Roughly 100,000 puffins have flown back to the Isle of May, a small island on the east coast of Great Britain, to kick off mating season.
Atlantic puffin; Atlantic royal flycatcher; Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross; Atlas pied flycatcher; Atlas wheatear; Atoll fruit dove; Atoll starling; Atuen antpitta; Auckland rail; Auckland shag; Auckland teal; Audouin's gull; Audubon's oriole; Audubon's warbler; Augur buzzard; Austen's brown hornbill; Austral blackbird; Austral canastero ...