It will be noticed that the blackish band across the throat does not touch the chin, this distinguishing it from the Horned Puffin of the Pacific coast.
Puffins are grotesque birds, with short legs, stout bodies and very large, thin bills, that of the common Puffin being 2 in.
The Puffin probably the Astronomer Royal, but some uncertainty prevails on this point.
We must hope that the Puffin may prove, as she expects, to be a disguised lamb.
I think we may take it for granted," I said, "that the Puffin is the man who sets the paper in astronomy.
Here is a little Faroe verse:-- Down comes the Puffinto the sea, With his head carried high.
It seemed impossible that such large, heavily wooded plants could be lifted for winter protection in the cellar, yet such Mrs. Puffin assured us was the case.
At the moment of embracing, Elfride's eyes involuntarily flashed towards the Puffin steamboat.
The poor child was with me looking at the approach of the Puffin steamboat, and I slipped down.
Knight raised the glass to his eye, and swept the sea till the Puffin entered its field.
My torngak tells me that Angut wants to meet her-- alone, mind--out on the floes at Puffin Island this afternoon.
Any man with the sense of a puffin might be trusted to lie still for his own sake, but I have learned this day that a man full of mad water is a fool--not to be trusted at all.
Horned Puffin and Tufted Puffin (Fratercula corniculata and Lunda cirrhata) Horned puffins favor rock crevices in talus slides and cliff faces for nesting, whereas tufted puffins are primarily burrow nesters.
Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) The horned puffin is one of the most abundant breeding birds in the Gulf of Alaska.
Breeding biology of the horned puffin on St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, with zoogeographical notes on the North Pacific puffins.
Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) Although the horned puffinis one of the most abundant seabirds in other parts of Alaska, it is much less abundant in the southeastern portion.
Breeding biology of the horned puffin on St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, with zoogeographical notes on the north Pacific puffins Pac.
Marine birds have served as important sources of food in the Faeroes Islands for centuries, the puffin being unquestionably the most valuable.
Thus prepared the puffinwas declared excellent, and Simpson acknowledged it the first.
Like the puffin and the storm-petrel, razor-bills rarely leave the sea except for breeding.
The puffin is entirely an oceanic bird, only coming to land to breed.
The puffin is easily the most conspicuous, since he flies with his little yellow legs stuck out on each side of his apology for a tail.
The road now passes inland somewhat, and the views of the Straits, of Beaumaris, and of Puffin Island, hitherto enjoyed, become obscured by trees.
Where Rabbits do not exist, the Puffin digs its own burrows, and works hard at its labor.
The Tufted Puffin breeds upon the rocks and in the Rabbit warrens near the sea, finding the ready-made burrows of the Rabbit very convenient for the reception of its egg, and fighting with the owner for the possession of its burrow.
The puffin has other and far more fatal enemies than the skua.
That this black, fluffy, colourless thing should ever become a puffin at all, seems wonderful.
The eye of the puffin is, by virtue of its setting, almost as marked a feature as the beak itself.
I have sometimes wondered if the fish which the puffincatches so deftly, and then carries home, a dozen at a time, are paralysed at the sight of it.
Pray heaven, then, I don't see another puffin with a big fish!
And it's proved that Captain Puffin went there too, because the note which his housemaid found on the table before she saw the challenge from the Major, which was on the chimney-piece, said that he had been called away very suddenly.
She did not look at Puffin and cut him; she did not seem (with the deceptiveness of appearances) to see him at all, so eager and agreeable was her conversation with her companion.
Puffin made a noise that sounded rather like "Fudge!
Puffin gave one long sigh of relief, and then, standing in front of his own Gladstone bag, in order to conceal it, burst into a cackling laugh.
Here it must not be forgotten that Captain Puffin always limped, and the Major occasionally.
Miss Mapp's penetrating mind instantly perceived that that dreadful Captain Puffin was drunk, and she promised herself that Tilling should ring with the tale of his excesses to-morrow.
If she, like Mr. Wyse, was to encourage Puffin to hope that she would accept his apologies, she would be obliged to remit all further punishment of him, and allow him to consort with his friend again.
If you and Major Puffin and that sweet little Scotch clergyman all fall in love with me, and fight duels about me, I will stop for ever.
The only thing that had power to restore Captain Puffin to gravity was the difficulty of getting the money for his ticket refunded, while the departure of the train with his portmanteau in it did the same for the Major.
Puffin was beginning to be aware of that as he swallowed the fiery mixture, but nothing in the world would now have prevented his drinking every single drop of it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puffin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
