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The Atlantic puffin is the official bird symbol of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [67] 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 ...
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 horned puffin's bill, which is larger than those of other puffin species, is red at the tip and yellow at the base. In summer (breeding) plumage, the bill's outer layer – the rhamphotheca – grows in size and turns bright yellow with a dark orange tip. The size and color of the rhamphotheca helps to attract a mate.
Auks or alcids are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. [1] The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, auklets, puffins, and murrelets.The family contains 25 extant or recently extinct species that are divided into 11 genera.
The number of Puffin nests in Alderney has almost trebled since the island's wildlife trust starting monitoring the animals in 2005. Alderney Wildlife Trust said the latest Puffin Survey found 330 ...
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 ...
The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. ... Puffin Rock; Puffins (TV series) S. The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure
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]