Atlantic puffin

Atlantic puffins, also called common puffins, are the only one of three species of puffin native to the Atlantic. They inhabit the far north, in Newfoundland, Labrador, Greenland, Norway and Iceland. They’re expert flyers, swimmers and divers, spending autumn and winter on the open ocean fishing. They can fly as fast as 80 kilometres per hour, and dive as deep as 60 metres for their food. Come spring and summer, adult puffins return to shore to breed and raise their young in cliffside colonies. A female lays a single egg, but both parents take turns incubating their chick, and later feeding it. Puffin couples often reunite each year at the same nesting site. How they find the exact same spot is a mystery.
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