Puffin

Name: Puffin

Scientific name: Fratercula arctica

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 80

What are nature stars?

About: A small seabird, about 33cm long. Puffins are very familiar birds, black above with a white belly and a greyish white face. Famously, they have a massive, multicoloured bill. Puffins live in burrows in the short grass at the top of cliffs. They feed on fi

How to identify: Unmistakeable.

Where: Nests on cliffs and islands at scattered locations around the coast of Scotland, northern England, south west England and Wales.

Natural Superpowers

  • Predator: 70
  • Agility: 30
  • Rarity: 60
  • Cute factor: 90
  • Traveller: 80

Fantastic fact: Also known as the Sea Parrot

Photograph credit: Photo credit tbc


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comments

  • Foxalas
    • Date: 2009-12-18 18:35:25
    • Foxalas

    I love Puffins they are one of my favourite birds!!!! I love their beaks. It so colourful!!! I have not seen one yet but I hope I will soon!!!!!!!!!!! :-)