Puffin Island
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Puffin Island is the name of several islands in a number of countries. In most cases the island has been so named because it has - or used to have - a colony of puffin
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Puffin Islands include:
Canada
Iceland
Ireland
United Kingdom
United States
Puffin
Puffins are any of three small species of auk in the bird genus Fratercula with a brightly coloured beak during the breeding season. These are pelagic seabirds that feed primarily by diving in the water. They breed in large colonies on coastal cliffs or offshore islands, nesting in crevices among...
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Puffin Islands include:
Canada
- Puffin Island (Baccalieu Tickle), Newfoundland and LabradorPuffin Island (Baccalieu Tickle), Newfoundland and LabradorPuffin 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...
- Puffin Island (Greenspond), Newfoundland and Labrador
Iceland
- Puffin IslandLundeyLundey, literally "Puffin Island" in Icelandic, is a small, uninhabited island off the western coast of Reykjavík, Iceland. It is about 400 meters long and 150 meters wide. Its highest point lies about 14 meters above sea level. The island serves as a haven for seabirds, including puffins, black...
, Reykjavík
Ireland
- Puffin Island (County Kerry)
United Kingdom
- Puffin Island (Anglesey), Wales
- LundyLundyLundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel, lying off the coast of Devon, England, approximately one third of the distance across the channel between England and Wales. It measures about at its widest. Lundy gives its name to a British sea area and is one of the islands of England.As of...
in the Bristol Channel may also be included, as its name means "Puffin Island" in Norse
United States
- Puffin Island (Alaska)
- Puffin Island (Maine)
- Puffin Island (Washington)