where do puffins live

Puffins live in the colder parts of the northern oceans, mainly along rocky coasts and offshore islands in the North Atlantic and North Pacific.

Main places puffins live

• Atlantic puffins : Coasts and islands of Iceland, Norway, the UK (including Scotland), Ireland, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and eastern North America from Newfoundland down to Maine, plus parts of the French and Russian coasts.

• Horned puffins : North Pacific coasts and islands of Alaska, British Columbia, and eastern Russia, including the Aleutian Islands and areas around the Chukchi and Okhotsk Seas.

• Tufted puffins : North Pacific from northern Japan and Russia across the Aleutian Islands and Alaska down along the coasts of Canada and the United States as far south as central California.

What their home is like

• They breed on sea cliffs and grassy or rocky offshore islands , nesting in burrows or rock crevices safe from land predators.

• Outside the breeding season, puffins spend months out at sea , scattered over the cold waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, living and feeding far from land.

One quick fun fact

• Iceland is the stronghold for Atlantic puffins, hosting the majority of the world’s population, with huge colonies on islands off its coast.

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