Animal of the Day: Tufted puffin!

During the mating season, tufted puffins have tufts and bright beaks. Their wings are short and adapted for swimming and a flying like style underwater. 

Tufted puffins were discovered my a German zoologist by the name of Peter Simon Pallas. These puffins are more closely related to rhinoceros auks than other puffins. 

Tufted puffins are found along the pacific ocean and have been spotted as far south as south California. During the feeding season they spend almost all of their time out at sea. 

The Aleut and Ainu people of the north pacific used to hunt puffins for their meet and hide. Natural predators include arctic foxes, peregrine falcons, snowy owls, and bald eagles. 

When fishing, the puffin catches lot of fish at once. Puffins look silly when flying

The tufted puffin digs burrows in cliffs for their nests. They form big mating and baby laying communities when the season is right.

Throughout the whole post I kept typing penguins instead of puffins.