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The Atlantic puffin forms part of the national diet in Iceland, where the species does not have legal protection. Puffins are hunted by a technique called "sky fishing", which involves catching the puffins in a large net as they dive into the sea. Their meat is commonly featured on hotel menus.
The Atlantic puffin acquired the name at a much later stage, possibly because of its similar nesting habits, [11] and it was formally applied to Fratercula arctica by Pennant in 1768. [9] While the species is also known as the common puffin, "Atlantic puffin" is the English name recommended by the International Ornithological Congress. [12]
Tribe Fraterculini – puffins Cerorhinca. Rhinoceros auklet, Cerorhinca monocerata; Fratercula. Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica; Horned puffin, Fratercula corniculata; Tufted puffin, Fratercula cirrhata; Biodiversity of auks seems to have been markedly higher during the Pliocene. [10] See the genus accounts for prehistoric species.
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]
The scientific name of this species records a name shift: Manx shearwaters were called Manks puffins in the 17th century. Puffin is an Anglo-Norman word (Middle English pophyn) for the cured carcasses of nestling shearwaters. The Atlantic puffin acquired the name much later, possibly because of its similar nesting habits.
The new hybrid likely came from breeding between two subspecies within the past 100 years, which scientists said coincides with the warming pattern.
Other researchers previously described biofluorescence in auks, bustards, owls, nightjars, parrots, penguins and puffins, but little is known about how they use biofluorescent signals, the study ...
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.