The habitat of the puffins

Posted on June 9, 2009 by cinzia

puffins on rocky coasts

The puffins (fatercula arctica) live in the open sea in the North of the Atlantic Ocean. only during the reproductive period they move to the coasts of Canada, United States, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Great Britain, France, Norway.

They prefer the rocky coasts, with grass edges; cliffs and the islands where the rocks are covered by a layer of ground that allow the puffins to dig their gallery- nests. The birds not yet mature and not ready for reproduction remain in the open sea all the year long.

In the Northern part of the Pacific Ocean, there are some kind of birds that are related to the puffins: the parrots with the con (fratercula corniculata), and the parrots with forelocks (fratercula cirrhata)

puffins on rocky coasts