Project Puffin

Puffins are excellent swimmers that use their wings to stroke underwater with a flying motion. They steer with webbed feet that swirl like a rudder . They dive to depths of 200 feet though they usually stay underwater for only 20 or 30 seconds. Puffins typically hunt small fish like herring or sand eels. In the air, puffins are great flyers.By flapping their wings up to 400 times per minute they can reach speeds of 55 miles an hour.

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Puffins reside far away from penguins but we are both birds and like to eat lots of fish!

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Hi I'm Emma, about 100 years ago people came to Maine to trap puffins for their meat and feathers, they also ate the eggs. Finally the colony was destroyed. The following story is full interesting facts about the puffins.

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You just learned how puffins can swim and fly, that's so cool! Now you are going to read how puffins came back to the Atlantic coast. Well come on,lets go!

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