Puffling by Margaret Wild

A sweet book about love, family and parental protection. This little puffling wants to go adventure out into the world but his parents want to make sure he is safe and ready. It is illustrated very well, so sweet the puffling and its loving parents are… this is a must read for puffin lovers and parents alike.

I got a new book yesterday, The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs by Gregory S. Paul, and as I was flipping through it I found the Saurornithoides? inequalis? or what looks like to me the DINO PUFFIN! Yes, it looks like a dinosaur version of a puffin. Take a look…

Illustration by Gregory Paul

Illustration by Gregory Paul

This dinosaur or to me, the dino puffin, liked to live in ‘well-watered, forested floodplain with coastal swamps and marshes, cool winters. I prefer cool winters myself.

Isn’t it fascinating to learn about new dinosaurs? When I was growing up…I learned about a couple dozen. Now, I have a definitive guide with hundreds of different kinds of dinosaurs. Technically birds are dinosaurs, theropod dinosaurs. So it is not without some merit that the puffin could be an ancestor of a dinosaur or a dinosaur itself. Amazing, the possibilities!

If you are interested in reading more about the dinosaurs, the theropods or the dino puffin (Saurornithoides? inequalis?) in particular…you can read it in this wonderful new book…

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs

Puffins, Nature Watch Series

The official descriptions reads:

Bobbing on cold ocean waves with their brightly colored bills and white-and-black feathering, puffins might seem similar to parrots or penguins. But puffins are unique members of the family of seabirds known as auks. The three types of puffins—Atlantic, tufted, and horned puffins—all have short, stubby wings that are better suited for propelling them through the waters of the northern seas than flying over land. Although puffins travel to islands to nest, they are unlikely to be seen on the mainland or even ocean coasts. Despite their minimal interaction with humankind, puffins are still threatened. Actions such as overfishing and pollution are hurting the puffin population. Learn more in this edition of Nature Watch.