Why a Puffin?: "Puffins can live for more than 30 years, if they're lucky!
Puffins are fast... 2. A puffin can fly about 40 miles an hour, and will beat its wings about 300 to 400 times a minute.
Puffins are reliable... 3. Puffins usually return to the same burrow and nest with the same mate year after year.
Puffins are powerful... 4. Where soil conditions permit, puffins can tunnel eight feet or more underground when excavating a burrow.
Puffins are successful... 5. It is estimated that there are about 6 million pairs of puffins in the world.
Puffins are popular... 6. In Iceland puffins are part of a long-standing cultural connection to the sea. They are eaten in restaurants and homes.
Puffins participate fully in the oceanic economy... 7. The puffin's number-one enemy is the Great Black-backed Gull, which kills and eats adult puffins and chicks when it can catch them."
