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On the southern shore of the Avalon Peninsula, a nighttime patrol is prowling the streets — but it's looking for puffins and Leach's storm petrels, rather than people. The Puffin & Petrel Patrol ...
Atlantic puffin Designated the official bird of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1992, the Atlantic puffin is one of three species of puffin and the only one that lives along the Atlantic Ocean. What does ...
As pelagic seabirds, the Atlantic puffin feeds primarily by diving into the water to catch fish. (Photo: Michael Winsor/Can Geo Photo Club) Often nicknamed “sea parrots” or “clowns of the sea”, ...
33-year-old puffin on New Brunswick island going strong, with a chick UNB graduate student, researching Atlantic puffin ecology, found the bird with a plastic band dating back to 1992 ...