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.
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!).
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!
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
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).
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 …
A puffin at the Seabird Centre’s SOS Puffin project, a conservation project to reinstate puffins on Craigleith Island, near Edinburgh. Photo: David Cheskin
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.
I totally didn’t expect it …
