H.H.H. Day
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My first contact with this lovely species. It was a rainy and windy day, a very agitated sea and we were in a very small boat. So, it looked like we were drunk trying to keep us standing and shoot the birds at the sea. I was lucky and I was able to focus a few of them, but the light was so low, I couldn't get much detail :)
Reykjavik, Iceland
Atlantic Puffin photographed in Elliston, Newfoundland.
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Aucune confusion possible pour cet oiseau marin symbole de la Ligue Française pour la Protection des Oiseaux. La silhouette est assez ronde. L'oiseau se tient dressé, bien droit. Description du plumage nuptial : dos, cou, nuque, raie sommitale et ailes entièrement noirs, dessous blanc pur, les joues, le dessus de l'œil, et les lores blancs, pattes palmées oranges. L'œil cerclé de rouge est souligné par un fin sourcil noir se prolongeant derrière lui.
Le bec est la partie la plus remarquable : grossièrement triangulaire et volumineux, il est formé de couches cornées successives, pointe rouge, base bleu foncé entourée de jaune. Il est légèrement crochu.
The weather is unspeakable today and has been for nearly a week and I'm really champing at the bit to get out. However, in the meantime here's some Puffins from the Isle of May to cheer us up
The weather is unspeakable today and has been for nearly a week and I'm really champing at the bit to get out. However, in the meantime here's some Puffins from the Isle of May to cheer us up
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There is nothing quite like the extraordinary sight of these spectacularly colourful little seabirds arrowing repeatedly across the shores of these islands, stubby wings flapping ten to the dozen, bills laden with sand eels, as they dodge robbing gulls, to land and feed their puffling chicks waiting in their burrows.
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Earlier this year we did a cruise of the Norwegian Fjords - - one of the common sights was the Atlantic Puffins scrambling to get out of the way - - the birds were usually quite far from the ship but there was the odd time a puffin had started his escape a little late - - therefore he was a bit closer - - but still a heavy crop.
Atlantic Puffin - Honningsvag, Norway
Puffin, Shetland Islands.
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J'ai laissé les forêts d'épinettes et de moustiques quelques jours afin de photographier ces beaux oiseaux .
Fascinating, intense and dizzying watching hundreds of Puffins trying to outwit the Gulls when coming back to the burrows...Isle of May...great to see so many with a good catch.
The Herring Gull picked off this unsuspecting Atlantic Puffin and tried to make off with the tasty meal. But to no avail. The puffin, you all will be glad to know, escaped the wily clutches of the ferocious gull.
Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. Two species, the tufted puffin and horned puffin, are found in the North Pacific Ocean, while the Atlantic puffin is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
All puffin species have predominantly black or black and white plumage, a stocky build, and large beaks that get brightly colored during the breeding season. They shed the colorful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. Their short wings are adapted for swimming with a flying technique underwater. In the air, they beat their wings rapidly (up to 400 times per minute) in swift flight, often flying low over the ocean's surface.
This image was taken at Bempton Cliffs, North Yorkshire.
Photographed the Atlantic Puffin on Gull Island part of the Witless bay Ecological Reserve on the coast of the Avalon Peninsula in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador Canada
The Atlantic Puffin is the provincial bird of Newfoundland and Labrador. About 95% of all North America's puffins breed around the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts. The largest puffin colony in the western Atlantic (225,000 pairs) can be found at the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, 32km south of St. John's.
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Puffins are any of three species of small alcids (auks) in the bird genus Fratercula. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among rocks or in burrows in the soil. Two species, the tufted puffin and horned puffin, are found in the North Pacific Ocean, while the Atlantic puffin is found in the North Atlantic Ocean.
All puffin species have predominantly black or black and white plumage, a stocky build, and large beaks that get brightly colored during the breeding season. They shed the colorful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. Their short wings are adapted for swimming with a flying technique underwater. In the air, they beat their wings rapidly (up to 400 times per minute) in swift flight, often flying low over the ocean's surface.
This image was taken at Bempton Cliffs, North Yorkshire.
In for a penny... another shot from late last June. Just don't look at the shutter speed, I must have been chasing flight shots just before and forgot!!
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