Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Blue Planet: Coasts

PUFFINS



                          These Puffins live near Iceland and breed on large cliffs along the coast. One of the most visited cliff by these birds is the Hornbjarg cliff. Over half of the world population of the Atlantic Puffin breeds in Iceland. Huge numbers of birds gather together to breed at cliffs where its less likely predators can easily prey on their young. If and when a predator does show interest in the cliff where the birds have nested, they flee in packs in hope to confuse it. 

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