Atlantic Puffin

A little, adaptable seabird called an Atlantic puffin can be found around the coasts of Northern America and Eastern Canada. Due to their enormous, colorful bill and penguin-like coloring, Atlantic puffins are frequently referred to as "sea parrots". The majority of an Atlantic puffin's life is spent at sea. While swimming, their water-repellent feathers keep their bodies warm. They flap their wings to swim on the surface and underwater.

Puffins from the Atlantic have great diving skills. On a dive, they may ascend up to 60 meters. Typically, they go after hake, capelin, and sand eels. Puffins in the Atlantic are skilled flyers. By flapping their wings up to 400 times each minute, they can travel at a pace of 55 miles per hour.

On the islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, they reproduce every spring and summer. In the burrows on the cliffs, they construct nests out of grasses and feathers. Only one egg is laid by the female, and it takes 45 days for it to hatch. Adult puffins leave the nest after the babies hatch to locate food for them. They return with little fish for their babies. The enormous beaks of Atlantic puffins may hold 10 to 30 fish at once.