A puffin in Britain was spotted with an astonishing 62 fish in its mouth at once ... When you’re done reading puffin facts, learn more about Atlantic puffins and birds with limited ranges ...
Perched on a shelf by the counter is a taxidermy mount of the Atlantic Puffin bird, paying homage to the restaurant’s best-selling traditional delicacy: smoked puffin breast with mustard sauce.
One puffin once carried 126 fish in their beak! Given how much we hear about fish stocks being in decline, can they really have swooped into the water and snatched up half a shoal in their mouth?
Smallest of the four puffin species, they have come en masse to breed on Britain’s rumpled islands and coasts, the more remote, unpeopled, and predator free, the better. No one is certain ...