Archive for the ‘Puffin nest’ Category

If you lure them, will they come?

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

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.)

Hatched Puffin Egg

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

This is a hatched puffin egg. The beauty of it is mostly in tact. A beautiful speckled puffin egg:

(Photo Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28190483@N07/3650595298/)

Both parents take care of the puffin eggs. The male puffins build a nest for the female. Then the female lays generally 1-5 eggs. Puffin parents are very protective guarding their puffin eggs diligently until they hatch approximately 40-43 days later.

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.