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Illustrated life of an atlantic puffin |
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Hi! Percy here again! I gather you'd like to know more about where we Puffins live. We breed along the coasts of the North Atlantic from Greenland to the Gulf of St Lawrence in the west, and from Spitzenbergen and Novaya Zemlya to the British Isles and Northern France in the east. Some of us spread as far south as the Canaries and into the Mediterranean as far as the Adriatic. | |
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British Puffins have been found wintering in American waters but not all of us migrate away from our breeding places. We regularly spend the winter in Baffin Bay and in mild winters we stay near Amsterdam Island, north of Spitzenbergen, despite the low temperatures and continual darkness of the Arctic winter. We don't mind so much because it's nice to be near home!
If you'd like to know more about our locations, have a look at the map:
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VISITNG PUFFINS WORLDWIDE |
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UK Puffins: Puffins on Skomer and Skokholm Islands Shetland Puffins and where to Puffin-watch
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USA and Canada:
A trip to see the puffins at Machias Seal Island
Bold Coast Tours - see the puffins
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"Honey, I'm home!" |
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Illustrated life of an atlantic puffin |
Puffin Information |
Puffin Homes
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