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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Puffin

Puffin

(Atlantic Puffin)

Fratercula artica

Gaelic: Fachach, Budhaig

Photography © Kim Park
Shiant Islands - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
24th June, 2006

 

Our Puffin photographs

Puffin	Puffin includes in flight	Puffins with Razorbill	Puffinery (Puffin burrows)

 

• Puffin
• Fratercula artica
• Gaelic: Fachach, Budhaig
• WI: Abundant migrant breeder (10,000+ breeding pairs)
  The colonies on the Shiant Islands and St Kilda are the largest in the UK.

 

According to the Birds Brittanica the allcomers record for one puffin's beakfull of fish is 62 fish!

Puffins bring up baby pufflings in puffinries - underground burrows.

The collective name for auks is a raft, colony, flock of auks.

 

 

Puffin records in the Western Isles

Abundant migrant breeder (10,000+ breeding pairs)
The colonies on the Shiant Islands and St Kilda are the largest in the UK.
Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)

On the chart below the darker the shade of blue the more abundant the bird is during a month or the more likely you are to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

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www.bigbigskies.co.uk

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