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Puffin Island is a small island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in a navigation channel called Baccalieu Tickle and just off the coast of Baccalieu Island. The island is an ecological reserve for its population of Atlantic puffin. The island is inaccessible from the water and provides ideal protection for the breeding colonies of Atlantic ...
Pee Pee Island is a small island located in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the far east of Canada. [1] It is the smallest of the four islands in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve, which it became a part of in 1983. It serves as a breeding place for the Atlantic puffin. [2]
Witless Bay Ecological Reserve is an ecological preserve close to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The Witless Bay Ecological Reserve consists of four islands: Gull Island, Green Island, Great Island, and Pee Pee Island. Immense numbers of birds nest on these islands during the seabird breeding season, roughly from 1 April through ...
The Atlantic puffin is the official bird symbol of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [68] In August 2007, the Atlantic puffin was unsuccessfully proposed as the official symbol of the Liberal Party of Canada by its deputy leader Michael Ignatieff , after he observed a colony of these birds and became fascinated by their ...
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The name of the English island Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for "puffin island" (Lundey), [32] although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area. [33] The Atlantic puffin is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Roughly 100,000 puffins have flown back to the Isle of May, a small island on the east coast of Great Britain, to kick off mating season.
The island supports the largest known colony of Leach's storm petrel in the world, approximately 40% of the global population and about 70% of the western Atlantic population of this species. It is a nesting area for 11 breeding species: Atlantic puffin (45,000 pairs – approximately 12% of the eastern North America population) at Puffin Island;