Puffin Browser

Technically, this does not have much to do with puffins. But, there is a web browser named Puffin Browser and it has a giant, lovely puffin as its logo. So cute is our little sea clown, it has become a symbol for many things. Now, a browser. =) The puffin browser.

puffin-browser

Puffinpalooza is NOT endorsing or recommending the Puffin Browser as we have not used it and we do not know its efficacy or safety. It just happens to have a puffin logo and we do so love our puffins.

Don’t you want to adopt a puffin?

I have mentioned it before but just to remind all you puffin lovers, you can adopt a puffin.

With each adoption—you will be helping ensure the puffin population on the coast of Maine where much research is being done to help the puffins thrive. This is the perfect gift for those puffin lovers in your life, or for yourself, or your classroom or organization.

You will receive:

  • A Certificate of Adoption
  • A Biography of your adopted puffin – Includes detailed information gathered by our researchers about an individual puffin from the time it hatched to the present; a summary of the puffin’s most recent behavior, nesting, and other activities; and a current color photo.

You can read more here.

If you lure them, will they come?

On Ramsey Island, they are trying something a little quirky to lure puffins back. They have placed hundreds of puffin decoys to trick the sea clowns to the island. If they work, the puffins will find burrows and nests built just for them by these puffin researchers/conservations. If this works, it’ll be the first puffins there for over a century! =) Let’s hope they succeed. We are rooting you on for certain!

(A video about this on BBC can be see here.)

Master Puffin Carver

In Washington State we have a master carver who carves puffins, and he teaches classes every year to teach others how to carve as well. This year (and possibly others) his class carved puffins, how cute are they?

Photograph property of Liz Holland

The whole article can be read here.