puffins in English

noun
1
a hole-nesting auk (seabird) of northern and Arctic waters, with a large head and a massive, brightly colored triangular bill.
One would imagine this place to be a paradise of alcids of all types, guillemots, dovekies, puffins , razorbills, murres, and murrelets all splashing around in their black and white finery.

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1. Puffins form long-term pair bonds or relationships.

2. Alcids (Puffins, Guillemots, etc.) Atlantic Puffin

3. Puffins in the coffin munch muffins.

4. "Alcae" - Alcids (Auks, Murres, and Puffins) Wiki ToL EoL

5. Of, pertaining, or belonging to the family Alcidae, comprising the auks, murres, puffins, etc.

6. Murres, Auklets and puffins are all sea birds that only come ashore to nest

7. ‘The removal of these predators has benefitted many other bird species on the islands, including puffins, murres, and Auklets.’

8. ‘The removal of these predators has benefitted many other bird species on the islands, including puffins, murres, and Auklets.’

9. The squat, grayish Rhinoceros Auklet is a close relative of puffins, although it doesn't sport quite such a fancy bill

10. Alcae definition is - a suborder of Charadriiformes coextensive with the family Alcidae and including the auks, murres, and puffins.

11. Great Auks belonged to the Alcid family of short-legged, web-footed birds that have short wings, other members being murres and puffins.

12. This is the third year that scientists have found unusually large numbers of marine birds -- mainly common murres, but also rhinoceros Auklets and tufted puffins -- washed up on beaches in

13. Recent research on the flying behavior of Alaskan Alcids shows how Earth has two kinds of fluid-filled “oceans”, the liquid ocean of sea-water and the gaseous “ocean” of air.1-3 (Alcids are auk-like birds, such as murres, guillemots, and puffins.) The study reveals that these birds, from the Alcidae family which includes puffins, murres and their relatives, produce efficient propulsive

14. The Auks or Family Alcidae (Puffins, Guillemots & Murres) Auks are a medium-sized, generally black and white family of birds which are not well-known to people outside of the bird watching and naturalist community

15. An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.The alcid family includes the murres, guillemots, Auklets, puffins, and murrelets.The word auk / ɔː k / is derived from Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ (“sea-bird, auk”).

16. The rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) is a seabird and a close relative of the puffins.It is the only extant species of the genus Cerorhinca.Given its close relationship with the puffins, the common name rhinoceros puffin has been proposed for the species.

17. Bas relief, LLC is the work of Ba Rea exploring natural history, especially her books on the monarch butterfly, the invertebrate community in the milkweed patch and the ecosystems, puffins, and humpback whales of the Kenai Fjords National Park.

18. ‘Closely related to the Tufted Puffin, the Rhinoceros Auklet is a large Alcid with a wedge-shaped head.’ ‘One would imagine this place to be a paradise of Alcids of all types, guillemots, dovekies, puffins, razorbills, murres, and murrelets all splashing around in their black and white finery.’