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Tufted puffin on Carroll Island, June 1907

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

While researching the Tufted Puffin I came across these wonderful Tufted Puffin photographs taken on Carroll Island, Washington State in June of 1907. This is an island in Clallam County. These photographs are part of the University of Washington archive. Sources cited below.12

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  1. http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/wastate,1375 []
  2. http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/wastate,1389 []
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.