Two Puffins

Two Puffins sharing lunch-dinner. Atlantic Puffins come ashore to breed in late April and begin returning to the sea in August. Some linger into September, but ...
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Two Puffins sharing lunch-dinner. Atlantic Puffins come ashore to breed in late April and begin returning to the sea in August. Some linger into September, but the fruitful season for visitation is only about a dozen weeks long. Tours begin at the end of May and usually finish for the season in mid August.   Puffins are truly pelagic. When fledged, young puffins will not return to land until they are mature enough to breed, about five years later. Once they leave their islands, all the puffins disperse across the ocean and are seldom seen, even from boats. Puffins are rarely seen from the mainland. Puffins are abundant from Newfoundland to Iceland to Scotland, spanning the cold regions of the North Atlantic. Maine is historically the southern edge of their breeding range.
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