Creature Feature XXVII: Puffins

Here‘s my latest for Creature Feature, this time about puffins. Thanks to Jon Woodward for convincing me of their interesting-ness!

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Atlantic Puffin, by Richard Batrz (CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons)

All the info is from a lovely book called The Puffin by Mike Harris and Sarah Wanless (reviewed here) and this paper by Tim Guilford and crew. The paper is open-access and very nicely written, so take a look!

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