FRATERCULA ARCTICA
Also known as “Puffin”
Adult puffins mostly eat small fish, such as sand eels, herring, hake and capelin
Fun Facts
- Size: Length: 28-34 cm, Wingspan: 50-60 cm
- The puffin's bill is serrated to help carry fish, and it has been recorded holding 83 sand eels!
They live in open ocean
- During the breeding season the puffin develops a distinctive colorful beak, but this becomes simple in the winter.
- Puffins spend most of the year at sea and only return to land once a year to reproduce.
Rocky Shorelines
- It has a comical appearance, with its parrot-like, large colorful bill, red and black markings around the eyes
- An extra bone in the puffin's jaw prevents fish at the tip from falling out.