180，Atlantic Puffins

these birds don’t fit the typical mold for a bird but they arequite similar if you look past their visuals. Atlantic puffins live in Islands around the Atlantic ocean likeIceland, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland, and other North Atlantic islands. Thepuffin lives in burrows near the shore and lives in colony’s. They spend a lot of time in the water, and arevery good swimmers and can dive to depths of 200 feet. They spend time swimmingand also looking for food, they eat mostly fish. The Atlantic puffins predators include gulls, hawks, eagles, andfoxes. They like to eat the puffins eggs and young but they try to hide them byhaving the burrows three feet underground. The main reasons these puffins go inland is to breed. They usefeathers and grass to make their nest. Something special about these birds isthat the same puffin couples go back to the same nest every year. Scientiststhink they may use the earths magnetic field or the starts to help them findtheir way. Their population is estimated at 10 million and they have alifespan of around 30 years. These puffins weigh 1 pound and are 10 incheslong. They are mostly black with white stomachs. Their beaks change colordepending on the time of the year, sometimes it is a gray but turned to abright yellow orange. For wild suzhou i’m palm tree and thank you for listening.