The puffins came wandering from their holes, and regarded the universal confusion with comic gestures.
The puffins take the highest station, and, though scarcely visible, betray themselves by their flying backwards and forwards.
In the early summer the sea all round is black with puffins and razor-bills, their white breasts being hardly noticeable as they sit on the surface of the water; and the air above is dark with clouds of gulls, and full of their ceaseless cry.
The latter may be seen sitting in rows on the rocks in company with puffins and shags.
Puffins and Manx shearwaters will sometimes share the same hole; or they will have a common entrance with passages branching out in several directions, as in some of our "desirable residential flats.
In 1440 we find the rent is still six and eightpence, but fifty instead of three hundredpuffins are reckoned the equivalent.
Puffins (also called sea-parrots) have bred on the islands from time immemorial.
In Burhou the Storm Petrel bred mostly in holes in the soft black mould, which was also partly occupied by Puffins and Babbits, but occasionally under large stones and rocks.
Besides these islands the Puffins breed in Alderney itself, and on Burhou, where, however, their eggs are robbed nearly as much as in the islands north of Herm, especially the eggs of those who choose holes in the soft earth.
I visited all these little islands in the summer of 1878 with Mr. Howard Saunders, and we found all the Puffins who had had eggs in holes in the earth had been robbed almost without an exception; the others, however, were pretty safe.
Such a misfortune, indeed, cannot be supposed to be of common occurrence; but the hundreds of thousands of puffins must be considered.
This reminds me of how often I have found the newly-picked remains of puffins on the cliffs and shore; but these were all of full-grown birds.
Probably it is the latter consideration which influences them, but ease is nearly allied to enjoyment, passes insensibly into it; and thus, in time, these little puffins may learn to soar.
This little incident gives a hint as to some of the mischances which may befallpuffins here.
Common murres (Uria aalge) are most affected, but Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) are also taken.
The breeding population of puffins (Fratercula arctica) in Norway.
David Spencer (personal communication) had noted similar swarms of hornedpuffins in this strait in 1956 while flying sea otter surveys in the area.
Horned puffins were judged to be slightly more common than tufted puffins by both authors.
As for Little Koniuji, have horned puffinsbeen partly responsible for the decrease in crested auklets?
Even though puffins have apparently never been numerous in the San Juan Islands, their population has noticeably declined during the past 35 years.
Tufted puffins often cling to them in spite of the fact that they have been reduced to "slums.
In those parts of the colony where gulls were numerous or where the puffins were at a disadvantage in escaping from gulls (i.
Fanciful people who class birds according to their constructive faculty as weavers, basket-makers, plasterers, and so on, would rank Puffins among miners.
As soon as the young are fully fledged, all the Puffins withdraw to southern seas, where they pass the winter, and do not approach land until the return of the breeding season.
Unlike the majority of sea-birds which have been passing under our notice, Puffins visit the shores of the British Isles in summer, and even in winter they are not absent.
Puffins and some other sea-birds appear to be either liable to a fatal epidemic or to be surprised by some atmospheric disturbance, being unable to resist which, they perish in large numbers.
Puffins are grotesque birds, with short legs, stout bodies and very large, thin bills, that of the common Puffin being 2 in.
Their food, like that of the murres, puffins and guillemots is of fish and shell fish, or marine worms.
He naturally went up to The Gregory at this hour, because it was then that he met the other boys, and caught puffins by being lowered over the cliff.
Kirwan was thus lowered to the rocks near the sea, where the puffins bred; and, loosening the rope, he prepared to spend the night in catching them.
There is a large colony of these birds established in the walls of a ruined fortification facing the sea, and Puffins may be seen repeatedly coming and going in their usual hasty way.
The Guillemots and Razorbills and Puffins are somewhat irregular in their date of return to the cliffs in spring.
The island of Doon, for instance, so thickly swarms with Puffins that when we land upon it these birds glide down to the sea in such countless hordes that the very face of the hillsides seems slipping away beneath us.
Well, the puffins are to Labrador what penguins are to the South Pole country.
You can make fine omelet from the eggs of eiders, gulls, puffins and cormorants.
If they had preferred the territory of the puffins or the auks, or even of the big bullying saddle-backs which were nearly twice their size, they would have taken it.
The puffins did no more flying than was necessary--swift and straight from their nests out to the fishing-grounds, and back with their prey to the nests.
The pair of puffins who had their burrow here were comparatively isolated, being some eight or ten feet apart from the crowded ranks of their kin.
At this season, late June, most of the puffins had hatched out their eggs.
He levied on the puffins again, and, after a meal, prowled curiously about his rock to see what damage the storm had done, but to his surprise found almost none.
His sixth egg turned out a good one also, and the next day there came another hopeful lull, which permitted him to harry the puffins once more, and gave him a dozen chances against contingencies.
And now and again wild flights of red-billed puffins swept up from the water and settled out of his sight at the eastern end of the rock, and he promised himself to look them up some other day if opportunity offered.
Reuben met us at the top of the staircase, where the puffins built so thickly that a false step would almost certainly send the foot crashing through the roof of one of their oddly shaped houses.
In some places Puffins arrive on the land to breed as early as March; in others, not before April; in others, yet again, not before the beginning of May.
I still retain the most vivid impressions on my visit to the grand colony ofPuffins on Doon, one of the St. Kilda group.
Old records inform us that the young Puffins were regularly gathered by the owners of the breeding-places, and were salted down for future food.
When disturbed at their breeding places, such Puffins as may chance to be outside the holes soon fly off to the sea, and join the hosts of birds that swarm in the water near every breeding station.
The puffins alone were calm, swimming in coveys on the glassy water and leaving long ripples in their wake.
Oyster catches passed the boat with their melancholy cry, but the fishing gannets and the swimming puffinsseemed scarcely to heed the intruders.
Puffins swimming a biscuit toss away as though they had never learned the fear of man.
Puffins have very heavy and deep but thin bills, which are entirely unlike those of any other bird and often give then the name of Parrot Auks.
Puffins are heavily built birds in appearance, but are very active both on the wing and in the water.
All around the ship, and as far as the boy's amazed sight could reach, the sea was dotted with swimming puffins and kittiwakes, gannets and fulmars.
There in the dying light the puffins swam and dived, and the sea-gulls screamed as they flew overhead, and on the edge of the rocks the shags stood in meditative rows.
Or suppose that different pairs of Kittiwake Gulls on the crowded ledges, or different pairs of Puffins in the crowded burrows, varied in like manner, would they all have equal chances of rearing their offspring?
Puffins young and puffins old, Puffins hot and puffins cold, Puffins tender and puffins tough, I thank the Lord I've had enough.
But is not one of the puffins gesticulating wildly?
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