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| Image details: |
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| Image Description: |
A Puffin Colony |
| Image notes: |
Sadly, this stack holds very few breeding pairs these days. |
| Species in Image: |
Puffin |
| Date: |
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| Area: |
Fetlar |
| Old Haa Image Reference Number: |
btc01274 |
| General details: |
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| Common Name |
Puffin |
| Latin Name |
Fratercula arctica |
| Shetland Name |
Tammie norie |
| Latin Group Name |
Charadriiformes |
| Latin Family Name |
Alcidae |
| Common Family Name |
Auks |
| Description |
A summer visitor to land, very few are seen in winter except from boats. They nest in burrows on grassy slopes or the peaty tops of small islands. They lay a single white egg, which is incubated for about 40 days. |
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