Puffins

by Dunn, Euan

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Title Statements

Full title :Puffins / Euan Dunn.

Summary

Enduringly popular, Puffins are perhaps our most iconic species of bird, and are the most immediately identifiable of seabirds with their decorative bills and clown-like gait. Yet when they take to the air they wheel and turn with great agility and underwater these stocky little birds use short specially adapted wings to propel themselves through the water in pursuit of small fish. Surprisingly little was known about Puffin ecology until recently thanks to their preferred breeding habitat being underground on remote islands or hard-to-reach coastlines. Now Euan Dunn discloses all we have learnt about them as a result of technological advances, and provides a revealing account of their life cycle, behaviour and breeding, what they eat, how they interact in their busy colonies, and where they migrate to in winter.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2014

The Physical Object

Description:128 pages : : color illustrations, color maps ; : 21 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781472965202, 1472965205, 9781472903549, 1472903544
oclc:ocn881126949
LC Classification:QL696.C42
Dewey Decimal:598.33

Meet the Puffins -- Colonial life -- Vital statistics -- Build-up to breeding -- From egg to Puffling -- Flying and foraging -- Threats to Puffindom -- Conserving Puffins -- Puffin fun -- Watching Puffins -- Glossary.

Subjects

Fratercula -- Alimentation Fratercula -- Écologie Fratercula -- Habitat Fratercula -- Mœurs et comportement POPULAR SCIENCE Puffins Puffins -- Behavior Puffins -- Ecology Puffins -- Food Puffins -- Habitat