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 Puffin
Fratercula arctica
Ahmed
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordatra
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriforme
Family: Alcidae
Genus: Fratercula
Species: Arctica
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Physical Description
The puffin is a small, pigeon sized bird with black upperside and a
white chest. It has a white face and cheeks.
It has a large orange bill with a red tip. Also,
bright
orange webbed feet and legs. The males and females are about the
same size, but the way you can tell the difference is that the males
bills
are bigger than the females.
Diet and Feeding Habits
The arctic puffins use their large bill to catch their
food, fish and marine invertebrates.They can dive up to depths of 80 ft
to catch their prey. The puffin can carry more than one fish in its
mouth.
Reproduction
In the summer puffins will meet and make a baby. The male puffin
and the female puffin do not leave each other once the're mated. In 40
days the baby will hatch. Once the know the baby puffin knows
how to swim and eat they leave the baby and do not come back.
Habitat
The male puffin builds the nest and both sexes of the
puffin watch it.
Role in the Ecosystem
Puffins are omnivores. They eat both fish and zooplankton, but
feed
their chicks with primarily small marine fish.
Bibliography
http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki.puffin
www.mosse/wppdland.htm mosseinmaine(date updated)
ht.:// www.nhptv.org/natureworkes/puffin.httm
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