Vol. 26 // Two Atlantic Puffins sittin’ in a tree… 💋

Found along the coasts of the Atlantic Ocean

Hear Their Song

The Atlantic Puffin — the official bird of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada — seems like it would enjoy a good sea shanty. This expert fisher lives along (and on, during the winter) the Atlantic Ocean, which holds its briny food source. Puffins can dive up to 200 feet below the water in search of fish, shrimp, and mollusks. It often returns to its seaside burrow with a mouth full of tiny silver fish to feed its young. 

These birds are nicknamed the “clowns of the sea” because of their expressive faces and beaks, which look as though they’ve been painted with bright orange and red stripes. During their breeding season (April through August) they’ll nest in colonies of thousands on islands. They can stay with the same mate year after year, and partners show each other affection by rapidly rubbing their beaks together. Adorable!

Fun fact: Puffin chicks are called “pufflings.”

Give a Hoot

Birding bits you should know about this week

🐟 Look
Puffin hunts fish to feed puffling
Want to see what tens of thousands of roosting puffins look like? (And pufflings too!) Plus, it’s narrated by David Attenborough.

👂 Listen
Bird sounds
Google paired up with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to make an AI-created map of thousands of bird sounds that you can explore.

😂 Laugh
If you’re boring just say that
Who can relate?!

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The grackle’s voice is less than mellow,

His heart is black, his eye is yellow,

He bullies more attractive birds

With hoodlum deeds and vulgar words,

And should a human interfere,

Attacks that human in the rear.

I cannot help but deem the grackle

An ornithological debacle.

–“The Grackle” by Ogden Nash

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