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Albino Puffins

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

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

  1. Source: http://www.iansimages.com/IcelandicPuffins.html []
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.