Tufted Puffin

Originally uploaded by ap.

The Tufted Puffin has the long eyebrows (really they are feathers but they look like long eyebrows or a slick hairdo). It is found on the West coast of the U.S. and Canada, from California up to B.C. up to Alaska. It can also be found in the Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands and throughout the Sea of Okhotsk.

You can tell the Tufted Puffin from other puffins not only by the long feathers on its head but also by its dark belly.

This is a beautiful bird and happens to live off the coast of my state. However, going to see them is no easy task. They are well protected. This is a good thing for them. =)

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Originally uploaded by helen.2006

I found this puffin video on Flickr. (Don’t worry, this is a valid feature of flickr to share — it gives credit to the author, I fully respect intellectual and creative property rights).

They are so adorable, aren’t they?

How fun! =) I found some puffin postcards. I will check into how to make these available so we can have some on puffinpalooza.com. How fun would that be? Maybe some of you could send me your photographs and drawings and we can add those as puffin e-postcards. =)

The site is Seabird.org.

This is one example: (Remember this image is property of seabird.org!!!)

A most wonderful 3rd grade class sent me their puffin pictures! YAY for puffin pictures! I love them all. Please do check them out by clicking on the animated picture over to the right that says, “Puffin Drawings by Mrs. Csorba’s Third Grade Class” or here.

Here is one sample:

We have added puffin crossword puzzles, puffin word searches, word games, puffin pictures to print and color… oh! How fun! You should check it out –> Look over to the right and see the animated icon “Fun, Games and Coloring Pages” and then click on it. It will bring you to our “Fun Stuff” page. We will be adding new stuff as often as we can. We hope you like it. Feel free to share it with your friends as well.

One sample:

You just can’t know how tiny a puffin is until you see one… puffins are approximately ten inches full grown. TEN INCHES! And they weigh about a can of coke. How adorable. I wanted you to see just how big (or small) ten inches. This graphic should be exactly ten inches tall. Feel free to get out your rulers! From the top of the black part to the bottom of the black part… these little cartoon puffins are standing head-to-toe just to show you how tall one little puffin is… Puffins are shorter than a piece of paper!!!

This is an excellent blog article all about puffins. It goes into detail about each of the four in this family. It has pictures, information and explanations on how we must work together to save these (and all) birds.

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This makes me love them even more! They are sooooo adorable. I love them. I want to hug them!!! How cute! This is an excellent little video. Great sound effects. Thanks National Geographic!

While doing a search on google for puffins, I came across “The Puffin Lady“! How fun! She loves puffins and has been collecting puffin stuff for over 27 years. Her site has pictures of her puffin-stuff, her holding puffins, and various sites. She was the reason I started to paint the puffin today. I wanted to make a graphic for her and got carried away.

Here is the graphic:

If you would like to go see her page, please follow the link in the right column or above.