Puffinpalooza » albino puffins http://www.puffinpalooza.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:49:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Rare puffin in the news… http://www.puffinpalooza.com/rare-puffin-in-the-news/ http://www.puffinpalooza.com/rare-puffin-in-the-news/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:15:16 +0000 Puffling http://www.puffinpalooza.com/?p=785 “Rare white puffin visits its black cousins off the Isles of Scilly” news article by the TimesOnline.

]]> http://www.puffinpalooza.com/rare-puffin-in-the-news/feed/ 0 Albino Puffins http://www.puffinpalooza.com/albino-puffins/ http://www.puffinpalooza.com/albino-puffins/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 03:43:20 +0000 Magpie http://www.puffinpalooza.com/?p=551 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)

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Leucistic (partially-albino) puffin

Leucistic (partially-albino) puffin

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Leucistic (partially-albino) Puffin

Leucistic (partially-albino) Puffin

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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
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