Yes but they are pretty clumsy about it. Sometimes you'll see a puffin line up a landing and then go around a dozen times before finally splooting into a relatively soft spot because they are just the essence of derp.
Fun puffin fact: Puffins have conservative family values and mate for life, raising a single chick (adorably called a puffling) in the same burrow each year
Seeing puffin on restaurant menus in Iceland after learning this was a bit concerning
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I need to see those pictures.
Although I can't find those exact pics, I believe that the photographer is Drew Buckley (Puffin Man), he takes a lot of photos of puffins :D
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Does he live on Drury Lane?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/4f2ae5977101a744fa4779131bc53a71/tumblr_myyuau16PJ1r4ljuao6_250.gif
Puffins can fly???
Yes but they are pretty clumsy about it. Sometimes you'll see a puffin line up a landing and then go around a dozen times before finally splooting into a relatively soft spot because they are just the essence of derp.
If thrown hard enough.
They're pretty decent flyers, it just looks ridiculous.
Fun puffin fact: Puffins have conservative family values and mate for life, raising a single chick (adorably called a puffling) in the same burrow each year
Seeing puffin on restaurant menus in Iceland after learning this was a bit concerning
Post this to the Birding community, this is cute as heck
This puffin got some stuffin for your puffin muffin. Just gimme the beak now!
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A puffin, cute as a muffin
They swim really good