Übersetzung für 'puffins' von Englisch nach Deutsch

puffins [genus Fratercula]

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• The island has many puffins and some storm petrels.
• Kress of the National Audubon Society to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine.
• The Bay of London may have been so called because of puffins breeding there: Old Norse "lundi" = "puffin", Old Norse "á Lundunum" = "at the puffins".
• Davidof Island supports a substantial colony of tufted puffins and horned puffins.
• Large numbers of puffins and gannets inhabit Mykines and Mykineshólmur.

• When Nina goes off to a fjord to make observations of the puffins that live there, Molly and Trini are over the moon about it and join their friend.
• There are around 10,000 breeding pairs of puffins on Skomer and Skokholm Islands, making them one of the most important puffin colonies in Britain.
• The townspeople have a tradition of guiding stray puffins to safe locations.
• Important waterfowl species of the Norwegian Sea are puffin, kittiwake and guillemot. Puffins and guillemots also suffered from the collapse of the herring population, especially the puffins on the Lofoten Islands.
• The population of puffins ("Fratercula arctica") on the island declined in the late 20th and early 21st centuries as a consequence of depredations by brown and black rats ("Rattus rattus") and possibly also as a result of commercial fishing for sand eels, the puffins' principal prey.

• The town's nickname is "Puffins' capital of Iceland" as there are many puffins in the area especially around the harbour, especially on "Hafnarhólmi" Rock.
• In the early summer the sea all round is black with puffins and razor-bills, their white breasts being hardly noticeable as they sit on the surface of the water ; and the air above is dark with clouds of gulls, and full of their ceaseless cry.
• Tufted puffins are around [...] in length with a similar wingspan and weigh about three-quarters of a kilogram (1.6 lbs), making them the largest of all the puffins.
• Rats were probably introduced via shipwrecks; supposedly, a coal boat that sank offshore was the first culprit and caused great harm to the nesting bird populations, with the puffins proving vulnerable to the extent of extinction as breeding birds.