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Puffins - Clowns of the Sea
BirdNote
Aired:
07/10/2009

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A flexible hinge at the back of its jaw allows a puffin to hold a whole row of fish crosswise in its bill.

 

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2:00 minutes (1.57 MB)
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Puffins are icons of the seabird world. With clown-like faces and huge, multicolored bills, they stand upright on sea cliffs along the northern oceans. Tufted Puffins nest on islands and rough coastlines, from the Channel Islands of Southern California across the north Pacific to Siberia. The Atlantic Puffin – like this one - breeds in the North Atlantic.
Catch a video  by Project Puffin, off the coast of Maine.


 
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