INTERESTING FACT
It was onced believed that a Puffin was a fish as well as a bird. People thought it was born from rotting piece of wood floating in the sea, instead of hatching out from an egg as we know it does today.

Puffin Puzzle–not so simple!

Puffin Scrambler Puzzle

Puffin Scrambler Puzzle

Oh! It looks simple–9 squares–but once you get started, you will be in for hours of mind-scrambling fun with this puzzle. I couldn’t stop playing…it is not as easy as it looks. Check it out for yourself (click on the picture above!).

Puffin Stamps

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Albino Puffins

I wondered if ever an albino puffin existed–and google answered, “yes.”

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Albino Puffin -- at the National History Museum (Photo by Higgott on Flickr)

Leucistic (partially-albino) puffin

Leucistic (partially-albino) puffin

Leucistic (partially-albino) Puffin

Leucistic (partially-albino) Puffin

You can see another albino puffin here at Bobby Tulloch’s photography site.

In Iceland, albino puffins are sometimes referred to as lundadrottning (puffin queen), lundakóngur (puffin king) and lundaprins (puffin prince).1

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The Faroes and Iceland Studies in Island Life By Nelson Annandale, Francis Hugh Adam Marshall

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Name a Puffin Mascot (Prizes!!!)

I already made a post about this opportunity but I really think it deserves another. I went to the website myself and found a great picture of the puffin mascot you will be naming for the Alaska SeaLife Center which now has both Tufted Puffins and Horned Puffins as well as Rhinoceros Auklets!!!

NAME THIS PUFFIN!

NAME THIS PUFFIN!

If you want to help pick this adorable mascot’s name and possibly WIN some prizes…all you have to do is send an email BY May 13th at 5:00 pm Alaska Daylight Time to puffinmascot@alaskasealife.org with the following information:

1.  Your idea for the puffin mascot’s name*
2.  Name of person submitting entry
3.  Mailing address
4.  Phone number
5.  E-mail address

Or mail it to:
Alaska SeaLife Center
Attn:  Puffin Mascot,
PO Box 1329
Seward, AK 99664

You can read more here.

You can name a puffin and win a prize…

Puffin naming contest comes with prizes

The puffin has landed—but it’s still looking for a name.

The Alaska SeaLife Center debuted its new puffin mascot at the Dena’ina Center on April 18 and launched a contest to name the oversized seabird by Wednesday —just in time for Seward’s harbor opening weekend on May 15-16.

The contest winner will have an opportunity to be “Keeper for a Day” with round-trip transportation for two on the Alaska Railroad between Seward and Anchorage and an education program for the classroom of your choice—either at the SeaLife Center, by our outreach educator in Anchorage, or by videoconference to schools in rural Alaska or outside the state.

Participants can drop off the puffin mascot’s name, along with their name, mailing address, phone number and e-mail address at the center or mail it to Alaska SeaLife Center, Attn: Puffin Mascott, P.O. Box 1329, Seward 99664 or e-mail to puffinmascot@alaskasealife.org.

If more than one entry of the same winning name is received, a random drawing will determine the winner.

Entry deadline is 5 p.m. on Wednesday.

(I tried to Digg this but it was not working–so you can find this posted here at The Seward Phoenix).

Puffin Flying Video

You really need to watch this video! The puffin is “gliding” through the air… very cute!

They have a lot of puffin videos to enjoy there–check them out while you are there.

Cute Puffin Video

The Cutest Puffin Video Ever

Authors Note: When I was at the National Aquarium for my birthday, I shot this video of the puffin exhibit because this one puffin was hamming it up for the camera. :) I totally didn’t expect it

Gorgeous Puffin Picture

Photo by David Cheskin

Photo by David Cheskin

A puffin at the Seabird Centre’s SOS Puffin project, a conservation project to reinstate puffins on Craigleith Island, near Edinburgh. Photo: David Cheskin

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Puffins Resurface On Maine Isles

An Atlantic puffin on Maine's on Eastern Egg Rock appears to imitate a decoy on July 9 by standing on one leg. Decoys were used to lure the gregarious birds ashore after they were re-introduced to the island following a 100-year absence. Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP

An Atlantic puffin on Maine's on Eastern Egg Rock appears to imitate a decoy on July 9 by standing on one leg. Decoys were used to lure the gregarious birds ashore after they were re-introduced to the island following a 100-year absence. Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP

Hunted to extinction in state, they’re thriving thanks to human help Puffins, which resemble half-pint penguins except that they can fly, were heavily hunted along the Maine coast for their meat and feathers, and by 1901 only one pair remained, researchers said. Puffins are often confused with penguins. They have similar colors, and both swim under water using their wings as fins, but they are not related and live at opposite polar ends of the world.

In 1973, with backing from the National Audubon Society and help from the Canadian Wildlife Service, Kress began transplanting 2-week-old puffin chicks from Great Island off Newfoundland, 1,000 miles to the northeast.

These days there are 90 nesting pairs on Eastern Egg, among more than 700 nesting pairs on four Maine islands, Kress said.

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Amazing pictures of puffins locked in battle over food

Photo by DailyMail
Photo by DailyMail

When you’ve swooped 300 feet into the cold and murky depths of
the Atlantic for your dinner, you don’t give it up without a
fight.

Even when you’re a tiny puffin and the thieves outnumbering you
are three fiercesome black-headed gulls.

This plucky puffin, smaller than a pigeon, braved an ambush by
his hungry enemies to carry a beak full of tasty sand eels back to
his nest.

It is a scene which takes place every year on the Farne Islands
off the Northumberland coast.

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