Facts All About Puffins

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Facts All About Puffins

• By Olivia Sorensen

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• Over the last month I have been researching the
  puffin. I will teach you about its physical
  description, its habitat, its defenses, its prey,
  its predators, and some interesting facts.

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Physical Description
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Habitat

• Do you know where the puffin lives? The puffin
  lives near the Atlantic Ocean. Things you will
  see in the puffins habitat are grass, burrows,
  and other puffins. The puffin can survive here
  because they eat sand eels.

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Defense

• Do you know how the puffin protects itself? The
  puffin growls and uses body language to protect
  itself. One way the puffin protects itself is by
  growling at its predators to scare them away.
  Another detail about the puffins defense is using
  body language by sticking out its wings .

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Prey

• Munchmunch munch. The puffin eats sand eels,
  crabs, and shrimp. Sand eels are the puffins
  favorite food. They can find sand eels in the
  water. The puffin goes under the water to get
  shrimp then it comes back up. The puffin eats
  crabs and finds them on the beach. The puffin
  uses its colorful beak to catch a dozen of fish.

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Predators

• Flapflapflap. The puffin is flying away from
  its predators. Foxes prey on puffins for food to
  survive. Rats kill puffins because they are
  hungry for survival. Another predator of the
  puffin is falcons. The falcon kills the puffin
  for survival. You can find the predators near the
  Atlantic Ocean.

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Interesting Facts

• Do you what to know some interesting facts about
  the puffin? I have three interesting facts about
  the puffin they are the missing toe, clown
  faces, and early days. Puffins have webbed feet
  that make them great swimmers in the water and
  they have a missing toe. Some people say puffins
  look like little clowns. The baby puffin eats
  more than 50 fish a day.

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• Now this is the end of my report. What did you
  learn about my puffin research?