Atlantic puffin
common puffin
fratercula arctica latin

There are also large colonies of atlantic puffins on the island.

Iceland is the home to most of the Atlantic Puffins with about 10 million individuals.

Even at this late date, he cannot conjure with the notion that Atlantic puffins stay mated for life.

It is estimated that more than 260,000 pairs of Atlantic Puffins nest there during the late spring and summer.

A group of Atlantic puffins.

Where rabbits breed, sometimes Atlantic Puffins breed in rabbit burrows.

Since the primary food source for Atlantic Puffins is fish, there is a great potential to bioaccumulate heavy metals from the environment.

About 95% of the Atlantic puffins in North America breed around Newfoundland's coastlines.

The breeding season for Atlantic puffins is normally in the summer, with eggs laid in June and July.

These include Atlantic Puffins, which live in large colonies at isolated parts of the cliffs and on the small Goat Island.

The rocky ledges surrounding the islands provide nesting habitat for Atlantic puffins, razorbills, and black guillemots.

An expedition in 2004 found the first evidence of nesting Atlantic Puffins, which are extremely common in the rest of the archipelago.

Terns, Atlantic puffins, razorbills, kittiwakes and other seabirds live on the North Sea coast.

The reserve is home to the largest Razorbill colony in North America and the third largest breeding colony of Atlantic Puffins.

Staple Island is an important wildlife habitat known for its prolific breeding colonies of Atlantic Puffins, Razorbills and Kittiwakes.

The islands are a breeding ground for many important seabird species including Northern Gannets, Atlantic Puffins, and Northern Fulmars.

The primary focus of these projects is to re-establish breeding populations of common, Arctic, and roseate terns, Atlantic puffins, and razorbills on historic nesting islands.

A variety of seabirds can be seen close to the seaside, which is home to colonies of cormorants, gulls, razorbills, northern gannets, common murres and Atlantic puffins.

The Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) at Bempton Cliffs tend to nest in rock crevices, whereas burrows are used at most UK sites.

It is home to colonies of many types of seabirds, including Atlantic Puffins, Great Cormorants, Arctic Terns, Common Terns, and guillemots.

- Harm to wildlife: Cairn admits that significant long-terms impacts of a spill could be expected on narwhals, breeding colonies of Atlantic puffins and razorbill and other species (page 146).

The island is known for its seabirds, including Manx Shearwaters and Atlantic Puffins, and for its plants, including Red Fescue, Sea Beet and Common Tree-mallow.

The isles provide nesting for a population of seabirds, including Atlantic Puffins, Northern Fulmars, European Storm-petrels, Leach's Petrels, Common Shag and Black-legged Kittiwakes.

He began to study migratory birds from 1928, establishing the first British bird observatory in 1933, and carrying out extensive pioneering research on breeding Manx Shearwaters, Atlantic Puffins and European Storm-petrels.

It is also a sanctuary for seabirds such as Atlantic Puffins, Razorbills, Common Murres, Common and Arctic Terns, Leach's Storm-petrels, and Common Eiders.

The puffin's scientific name is Fratercula arctica.

It causes renal coccidiosis in the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).

Puffin (Fratercula arctica)

Eimeria fraterculae - Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)

Puffin (Fratercula arctica) breed and the only plants recorded are rock sea-spurrey and oraches (Atriplex) species.

The SSSI citation lists five species of breeding birds on the island including the Puffin (Fratercula arctica).

In 1899, Whittell donated to Edinburgh Museum a specimen of an Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) taken in County Mayo, Ireland.

The Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) at Bempton Cliffs tend to nest in rock crevices, whereas burrows are used at most UK sites.

The Tree Mallow's recent increased range among Scottish islands has raised concerns that it is displacing native vegetation, and is reducing Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) populations in affected areas.

The cliffs around the cape are an internationally important nesting site for over 50000 sea birds, including colonies of Puffin Fratercula arctica, Razorbill Alca torda, Guillemot Uria aalge, Kittiwake Rissa tridactyla and Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis.

Puffins (Fratercula arctica) were first recorded as breeding on Round Island in 1850 by Issac North and during the building of the lighthouse it was said that "They (puffins) were extremly tame and used to walk in and out of the kitchen of the workmen who built the tower.